Word: hebron
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...counterviolence that has whiplashed the West Bank in recent weeks. A day after a Palestinian youth was shot and killed in a schoolyard scuffle with Israeli soldiers, Arab terrorists two weeks ago opened fire on a group of Jewish settlers returning from evening prayers in the city of Hebron, killing six and wounding 16. In retaliation, Israeli commandos last week staged two coastal raids into southern Lebanon. They ambushed a Jeep carrying four commandos of the Palestine Liberation Organization and killed four civilians in another car near a Palestinian refugee camp...
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...
...military curfew did not include the 4,000 Jewish settlers of Qiryat Arba, on the outskirts of Hebron. Following the funeral of one of the attack victims, gangs of Jewish settlers, many carrying automatic weapons, rampaged through Hebron, firing into the air, smashing windows in homes and cars owned by Arabs, and attempting to break into stores. Israeli soldiers on the scene made only intermittent attempts to curb the violence...
Even some Israelis blamed the Begin government's settlements policy for igniting the troubles. Earlier this year, Begin's Cabinet approved the construction of Jewish settlements in major Arab urban centers such as Hebron. For more than a year, squatters from Qiryat Arba have illegally occupied the former Hadassah clinic in Hebron, where the attack took place. Israel's former Army Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, who is now secretary-general of the opposition Labor Party, argued in the Knesset last week that the Hebron attack would never have occurred if Begin's government...
...more difficulties at the long stalled autonomy talks between Egypt and Israel, which are 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...