Word: jabalia
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...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...
...curtail terrorism, the Israelis imposed curfews, increased military patrols and searches of Arab population. Currently the Israelis are trying to thin out the population of the crowded camps; in the Jabalia camp, where this year alone some 40 Arabs have been murdered, presumably by Palestinian guerrillas, 1,500 people have been moved to other quarters. In addition, a 9-ft-high fence topped with barbed wire is being built on the 25-mile eastern perimeter of the Strip...
...weapon in any all-out attack on Israel. Although I was refused access to the camps themselves, an UNRWA representative, who had just come from distributing the first food and water the camps had received for days, said that there had been some 500 casualties in the camp of Jabalia alone. An Israel officer in Gaza City admitted that no Israeli troops had dared venture into the compounds because many of the refugees were still armed...