Word: nablus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Israeli witnesses and the army, the hikers stopped for a picnic lunch in a dry riverbed just outside Beita, 10 miles southeast of Nablus. Shmuel Fuchs, 15, said they had just sat down when a group of Arabs started throwing rocks...
...When people heard a farmer was killed they attacked the settlers with axes, picks and rocks. There was hand-to-hand fighting," Aly said in an interview at Al Ittihad Hospital in Nablus...
...army said Khalil Jaber Hamzway, 18, was electrocuted when soldiers ordered him to climb a utility pole and remove a flag in the Askar refugee camp near Nablus...
...strike back at the rioters. Settlers have raided Arab towns, vandalizing cars and houses. Armed with Uzis, pistols and billy clubs, ultrafanatic inhabitants of Kiryat Arba, home of Meir Kahane's extremist Kach movement, pile into cars and vans every day to patrol the roads leading to Hebron and Nablus. They claim that their purpose is to "supplement" the Israeli army; their real intent seems to be provocation and revenge. "The Palestinians are not afraid of the soldiers," insists Shmuel Ben-Yishai, a spokesman for the Kiryat Arba residents. "But they are afraid of us." Ben-Yishai, who directs...
Barak confirmed some soldiers had used a bulldozer to bury four Palestinians alive near the West Bank city of Nablus and declared: "This pattern of behavior...is totally unacceptable under the standards of the Israeli Defense Forces and any civilized norms. Whoever is found responsible for this event will be punished...