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Bashir Hamad was one of nine Palestinians chosen for expulsion in the wake of the month-long rebellion that has swept through the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. Though seven have already spent time in prison, six for involvement in terrorism, the Israeli army accused only three of directly fomenting the recent riots; the rest are asserted to be "hard-core agitators." Hamad, though not cited for involvement in the current unrest, is accused of "organizing disturbances and participating in them" in his role as a leader of the Shabiba, a young men's group with close ties...
Riots broke out in both Gaza and the West Bank just hours after the decision was announced. Each day last week Israeli leaders declared the fury spent, but each day it continued. Five more Palestinians died, bringing the total killed since early December to 27. The first to die was a West Bank woman shot in the chest -- mistakenly, according to the Israeli military -- while she was hanging out her wash. Some of the worst violence erupted in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Yunis, where hundreds poured into the streets after they learned that an Islamic fundamentalist leader, Hassan...
...killing was the 32nd death in five weeks of riots and unrest in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East...
...latest violence erupted, a top U.N. official investigating Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza was barred from one by Israeli troops and by Arab demonstrators from another, Israel radio said...
Stores were shut yesterday in Gaza City and in the Arab sector of Jerusalem in observance of a general strike that began Sunday...