Word: nablus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elsewhere, three soldiers were injured in stoning incidents, and a member of a village council in the Hebron area was wounded slightly when a pipe bomb exploded beneath his car. Overall, however, a measure of normality seemed to be returning to the West Bank. The towns of Ramallah and Nablus remained heavily guarded by Israeli troops, but the strike that had closed down most stores a week earlier was gradually ending...
...skirmishes flared in Ramallah, Nablus and Gaza, Israelis were preparing for the final withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, an event that some of them opposed and many dreaded. In a week of drama, the controversial withdrawal, in turn, provoked an Israeli parliamentary crisis, very nearly forcing Prime Minister Menachem Begin to resign and call for new elections. The vote marked the beginning of a parliamentary struggle that was likely to last throughout most of the year...
...protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire to resist the Israeli soldiers who have to be sent in to remove them The picture that emerges from Halabi's assembled reports...
...Nablus, Israeli-occupied West Bank, Aug. 30. A bomb was apparently planted under a cart and wheeled into the city's marketplace. It exploded, killing a teen-age girl and injuring 14 passersby, all Arabs. The Israelis have accused the P.L.O.; local residents charge that Israeli extremists were responsible for the attack...
...controversy broke over a report published in the Washington Star. The newspaper charged that within days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...