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...minutes of the announcement, Hebron's merchants rolled down the iron shutters in front of their shops, and the streets were soon deserted. But violent demonstrations broke out elsewhere in the West Bank. In Nablus, a young Arab woman was killed when protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers. At Bir Zeit University, Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters, plastic bullets and finally real ammunition at 300 rock-throwing Arab students, wounding four. As Palestinian leaders in the West Bank called for a three-day general strike, Jews and Arabs alike feared that the Hebron killings would...
...Palestinian people as well, and were shocked by the failure of Arab states to come to their aid. The daily newspaper Al-Qudus, published in Jerusalem, denounced the Arab governments as "rotten regimes." On July 6, Israeli soldiers used bullets and tear gas to disperse a student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed the university for three months. They also dismissed the mayor of Gaza, the patrician Rashad al Shawwa, 73, who thus became the sixth Arab mayor to be fired this year in the Israeli drive to curb Palestinian nationalism in the occupied...
Israel's decision to fire Tawil provoked further unrest in the West Bank. Already outraged by Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights last December and the closing of Bir Zeit University last month, local leaders called a three-day general strike that shut down all stores and schools. Late last week, after a series of stonethrowing incidents by youths in El-Bireh, the protests culminated in tragedy. Israeli troops fired on the demonstrators, killing a 17-year-old Palestinian youth and wounding two teen-age girls. Later the same day, Israeli soldiers lobbed tear gas canisters...
...Israeli authorities have been increasingly tough in exercising control over the area's 700,000 Arabs. Since July, all three of the univer sities have been subject to military super vision. The tensions on the West Bank reached a break point after Israeli author ities shut down Bir Zeit University to prevent it from holding "Palestinian Week" activities. In El Bireh, a small town near by, about 50 high school girls gathered to protest the shutdown and threw stones at a passing Israeli car. The dozen or so soldiers trying to control the demonstration fired first...
West Bank residents were under standably outraged by the shootings. Said Bir Zeit University Professor Sari Nusseibeh...