Word: kalandia
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...find a symbol of resistance to Israel's occupation of Arab lands, one need look no further than the family of Mohammed Hamad. Since he fled Israel during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, Hamad, 60, has lived in the Kalandia refugee camp in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem. There he has fathered six of his eight sons. Each has displayed more anti-Israeli fervor than the last, and all but the eldest have served time in prison for offenses against Israeli military rule, which began after the 1967 Six-Day War. Three of Hamad's sons...
...demonstrators got 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...
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