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...number of Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire since rioting broke out in the occupied territories in March. An additional 200 have been injured. At least 13 secondary schools are closed, two universities are on strike, seven of the territories' 27 refugee camps have been under curfew, and business is at a near standstill...
...Jaruzelski. He and his comrades had hoped to blunt just that sort of anger. Earlier in the week, Poland's Interior Ministry announced that sufficient progress had been made in "the normalization of public life" to justify lifting some of the more onerous martial-law restrictions. The nightly curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. would be suspended (a concession that the protest may well have jeopardized), and Poles could make long-distance telephone calls within the country without going through an operator. The announcement also informed Poles that 1,000 political internees would be released, 200 of them...
...Arab refugee camps in the occupied territories quickly became centers of protest; no fewer than six were placed under total curfew as a result of violent demonstrations. In the Jubaliya camp outside Gaza City, six youths were wounded by gunfire. At the Deheisheh camp near Bethlehem, a grenade was hurled at a military vehicle. No Israeli was injured, but in the subsequent melee seven Arabs were wounded by gunfire. At a girls' school in Ramallah, a 16-year-old student was shot in the hip. In Gaza City and Rafah, scenes of the most violent rioting, huge rocks were hurled...
After a day of rioting, the entire city of Rafah (pop. 80,000) in the Gaza Strip was placed under curfew by Israeli authorities. When East Jerusalem's Supreme Muslim Council called for a protest march to the Temple Mount, Israeli riot police and troops moved in and arrested 32 of the leaders before the marchers had taken ten steps. Shaking with fury, a prominent East Jerusalem resident, Anwar Nusseibeh, declared: "The transgression on the Temple Mount was not against us; it was against the values of everyone who believes in God. All we intended to do today...
...develops a severe case of bronchitis on the following day. Violating the curfew, I bundle him up and sneak through back alleys to the doctor's house. My anxiety grows, and then I feel anger and frustration as I try to pacify my son's whining demands for candy when we pass the closed stores. Just how does one explain these things to a child...