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...charges were laid against Levinger, but 25 other Israelis, including at least two active officers, some reserve officers, and soldiers from Israeli commando units, are now under arrest. Among the incidents under investigation are the 1980 car bombing of two West Bank Arab mayors, a July 1983 attack on Hebron's Islamic College and a foiled plot last month to blow up six Arab buses...
...past four years, fanatical Jewish activists have launched more than 40 terrorist operations against Arab and Christian homes and institutions in Israel and the West Bank. Among the more spectacular crimes: the attempted assassination of three West Bank Arab mayors in June 1980 and an assault last summer on Hebron's Islamic University in which three Arabs were killed and 33 wounded. Responsibility for the latest West Bank machine gunning was claimed by a unit of the clandestine organization TNT, a Hebrew abbreviation for Terror Against Terror...
...almost midday, and a score of Arab students had gathered for lunch in a rocky field behind the Islamic College at Hebron, a city of 70,000 in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Suddenly two gunmen, their faces masked by checked red-and-white Arab kaffiyehs, darted through an opening in a stone wall and opened fire on the group. As horrified students and teachers rushed for shelter, the attackers sprayed the four-story college building with bullets. Before retreating to a waiting car, they lobbed a grenade through the front door and fired indiscriminately into another group of students...
...attackers made every effort to conceal their identities, suspicion immediately centered on fanatic Jewish settlers. The apparent motive: to obtain revenge for the murder of Aharon Gross, 18, an American emigrant who was stabbed three weeks earlier as he was waiting for a bus near the market in Hebron's old Jewish quarter. So far, no one has been arrested for Gross's murder, but witnesses said his assailants were Arabs...
...effort to prevent further violence, the Israeli government dispatched reinforcements of border police and paratroopers to Hebron. A 24-hr, curfew was imposed. Within minutes of the announcement, Hebron's merchants rolled down the iron shutters in front of their shops, and the streets were soon deserted. But violent demonstrations broke out elsewhere in the West Bank. In Nablus, a young Arab woman was killed when protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers. At Bir Zeit University, Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters, plastic bullets and finally real ammunition at 300 rock-throwing Arab students, wounding four. As Palestinian leaders...