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...Allah! Ya Allah! [O Lord! O Lord!]" The cries were from a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Amel Sharif, a patient at Amira Alia Hospital in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Between her screams, Amel tried to explain what had happened to her four days earlier...
...girls' school in the West Bank village of Arrabe when pupils began to complain of the same symptoms: headaches, abdominal pains, dizziness, energy loss. The ailment spread to eight schools in Jenin, a larger West Bank town a few miles away, and early last week it reached Hebron. What was going on? Baruch Modan, Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, acknowledged that the first cases might have been caused by some "environmental irritant." Investigators had noted the presence of a yellow powder, possibly pollen, on some windowsills of one school near Jenin...
...from Palestine," fired back his son. "From Hebron...
...West Bank, the Palestinian population learned of the shootings on an Arabic-language news broadcast at 11:30 a.m., some 90 minutes after Goodman had been taken into custody. Almost immediately, storekeepers began to close down their shops in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron and other major communities. Demonstrations broke out in several West Bank towns, a resumption of the general disorder that had afflicted the area sporadically for several weeks...
...village of Ya'bid, near Jenin, a band of Arab youths, armed with knives and homemade firebombs, attacked an Israeli army patrol. The soldiers opened fire, wounding three Arabs. Elsewhere, three soldiers were injured in stoning incidents, and a member of a village council in the Hebron area was wounded slightly when a pipe bomb exploded beneath his car. Overall, however, a measure of normality seemed to be returning to the West Bank. The towns of Ramallah and Nablus remained heavily guarded by Israeli troops, but the strike that had closed down most stores a week earlier was gradually...