Word: jabalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral support from unexpected sources. After having his tour of the Kalandia camp cut short by rock throwing, Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island faulted Israel's management of the crisis. Another visitor, British Foreign Office Junior Minister David Mellor, infuriated Israelis when he emerged from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and called conditions in such camps an "affront to civilized values." He also sharply upbraided an Israeli army colonel for arresting a 14-year-old boy accused of throwing stones. "I saw no stones being thrown," Mellor told the stunned officer...
...this week. The Jerusalem daily newspaper Al Quds, which circulates widely in Gaza and the West Bank, was banned there for one month after it published a picture of an Israeli soldier carrying a tear-gas launcher and fleeing from a crowd of demonstrators in Gaza. Two refugee camps, Jabalia (pop. 40,000) in Gaza and Dheisheh (pop. 8,000) near Bethlehem, were sealed...
...Gaza refugee camp of Jabalia, Israeli soldiers, in an apparent effort to avoid being stoned, blindfolded two teenagers and tied them to the hoods of their jeeps. On Wednesday night Israelis were horrified by television footage of a man in civilian clothes firing an Uzi submachine gun into a crowd of rock-throwing Palestinians. He was later identified as an agent of Shin Bet, Israel's internal-security service. The agent will reportedly be disciplined, but officials appeared less upset by the act itself than by the fact that it was captured on film. At week's end the trouble...