Word: halhul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army insists it will punish Jews who break the law. But Palestinians say soldiers often stand by idly when settlers attack Arabs. Rafik, 31, who won't disclose his full name for fear of retaliation, recalls an attack on his home in the village of Halhul two weeks ago. Just as the family was finishing breakfast, five heavily armed men stepped from a car with Israeli license plates and unleashed a barrage of insults and indiscriminate gunfire. "It was an expression of raw hatred," says Rafik, pointing to broken windows and mirrors and a dozen bullet holes in the wall...
...before the session was scheduled to begin, the Palestinian delegates, Anglican Bishop Elia Khoury of Amman and Mohammed Milhem, former mayor of the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Halhul, suddenly balked. After consultation, the pair refused to sign a declaration that acknowledged Israel's right to exist. Howe called the cancellation a "disappointment and a setback," but added, "We must not allow it to be a fatal one." The problem for the P.L.O. was compounded on Tuesday when Jordan's King Hussein announced his support for the British decision to call | off the meeting. Said Hussein: "We'll have...
Immediately after the Hebron attack, a round-the-clock curfew was imposed on the city's 50,000 Palestinian residents. The mayor of Hebron, Fahd Qawasmi, the mayor of nearby Halhul, Mohammed Milhem, and the Muslim religious judge of the Hebron area, Sheik Rajab Bayud Tamimi, were blindfolded and put aboard an Israeli helicopter, which deported them to southern Lebanon...
...grinding toward a May 26 target date. In response to the onslaught, at week's end Israeli military authorities accused three local Palestinian leaders of having incited extremism in the area: the mayor of Hebron, the town's Muslim religious leader and the mayor of neighboring Halhul. Within 36 hours, all three had been forcibly deported to Lebanon...