Word: nablus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bobbing and dipping above the heads of the crowd of 50,000, the plain wooden coffin was borne through the narrow streets of Nablus, the largest town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the front of the funeral procession, among mourners with drums and cymbals, fluttered the black, white, green and red flag of the Palestinians. Groups of youths, their faces hidden by kaffiyehs, flashed the V sign. Here and there among the hundreds of black-bordered portraits of the dead man were pictures of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The deceased: Zafer al Masri...
Zafir Masri, 44, obviously suspected nothing as he strolled from his home to the municipal offices in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. Then, as the prominent Palestinian moderate and mayor stopped to chat with a local businessman, murder struck. At least one assassin walked up behind Masri and shot him three times in the back with a 7.65-mm pistol. Two of the bullets lodged in his heart. The unidentified hitman fled in the direction of the town's central market-place. Masri died shortly afterward...
...fight Arab violence is with Jewish violence. The vengeful cycle began in May 1980, when Arabs ambushed and killed six Jewish settlers in the city of Hebron. One month later, two car bombs went off on the same morning, severing both legs of Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus and blowing off part of the left foot of Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf. Every few months fresh blood was shed: a settler would die after being knifed or hit by a rock, then an Arab would be killed by a booby-trapped grenade hidden among stones. In 1983, three Arabs stabbed...
...settlement of Israelis in the West Bank. In a radio interview, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon raised the hypothetical possibility of Israeli military retaliation against West Bank towns for Arab terrorist acts, unless Jewish settlers are moved into every Arab community. Said Sharon: "If [the West Bank city of] Nablus will be a place which is a center of terror, and Jews won't enter it, it is reasonable to assume that the day may come when Israel will have to shell Nablus." Sharon's conclusion: "By no means is it possible to leave one place in which...
...wife and mother cried when they saw those pictures," said a teacher in Nablus, a Palestinian town of 80,000 on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "We Palestinians must be the first people to suffer a civil war even before the creation of our state." He was speaking, with grief and horror, of the photographs he had seen of the fighting in Tripoli. Like others throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, he was devastated at the sight of Palestinians killing Palestinians...