Word: halhul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first step toward a general reconciliation of Israel with all its Arab neighbors. Central to this reconciliation is a resolution of the Palestinian question. In seven Arab towns on the West Bank, Palestinian crowds greeted last week's news with jeers and barrages of stones. Israeli troops in Halhul impetuously fired into a crowd, killing two demonstrators, one of them a 17-year-old girl...
Arab reaction was swift and defiant. In the West Bank towns of Ramallah and Halhul, students stoned Israeli soldiers; the soldiers retaliated with arrests and beatings. Near the village of Sinjil, Arab youths stoned Jewish settlers belonging to the religious nationalist Gush Emunim (group of the faithful). The angry Jews invaded the Arab school in Sinjil, seized the principal and marched him to their settlement for "questioning." In the midst of this unrest, the Israeli government established a new "outpost"-the forerunner of a civilian settlement-at Nueima, northeast of Jericho. The settlement will be the 51st on the West...