Word: hebron
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...schoolroom, many boys and girls have spent the idle months caught up in the intifadeh, | congregating on street corners instead of in classrooms. "My first challenge will be trying to make my students act and behave like students and not like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still expect the reopening of West Bank schools to occur without incident. Says a twelfth-grader named Salem...
...rampage in the Palestinian village of Kifl Harith, near Nablus, smashing and burning property, shooting animals and spraying houses with hundreds of rounds of automatic fire. A 16-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by stray bullets as she hid in her home. The Arab city of Hebron is a frequent target of Jewish raiders from nearby Kiryat Arba. Daily patrols of heavily armed settlers cruise the streets to prove they can still move freely around the city...
Nothing short of mass expulsion will satisfy the more radical settlers. "The Jews who live here should be decorated for their patience," says Aharon Domb, 32, who runs a yeshiva in Hebron. From his bulging briefcase he pulls out an assortment of Palestinian weapons: rocks, metal spears, and spikes designed to rupture tires. By his count, 541 vehicles were damaged and 30 Jews injured in Hebron during April and May alone. "Look at what we have to live with," he says, displaying pictures of broken windshields and bleeding faces. "We accept that settling the land of Israel requires suffering...
Soldiers who dare to intervene have been threatened and harassed -- or merely ignored. When dozens of troops attempted to block vigilantes leaving Kiryat Arba, the settlers slipped out on foot or by back roads. Last week police arrested Hebron resident David Axelrod on charges of physically assaulting soldiers, but the army has generally been frustrated in its efforts to keep the vengeful settlers under control. Major General Amram Mitzna, who heads Israeli forces in the West Bank, has asked the government to "help us by stopping the settlers' incitement against the Israel Defense Forces." He warns...
...rare legal move against Jewish settlers, an Israeli court last week indicted one of their leaders, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 54, for manslaughter. The court charged that the Israeli shot an Arab shopkeeper to death and wounded another in the city of Hebron last fall, after Palestinians stoned his car. The indictment stunned Levinger's followers, who have asserted their right to protect themselves with guns...