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...beatings have provided only a temporary respite. Last week fresh waves of violence swept over the West Bank and Gaza. For two days the Casbah of Nablus rang with a harsh tattoo as young stick-wielding Palestinian militants pounded on closed shop shutters and metallic junk barricades. Defying a curfew, the youths, armed with slingshots and iron bars, declared the old, walled portion of the West Bank city to be a Palestinian enclave. Forbidden red-black-white-an d-green Palestinian flags waved from the mosques, the gangs controlled the streets, and the army refused to enter...
...Palestine Press Service said a second Palestinian died after he was shot in the head yesterday near the West Bank city of Nablus. The Arabrun agency said the circumstances of the shooting were not clear...
...army announced yesterday that border policeshot and wounded one Palestinian in the leg afterfire bombs were thrown at a patrol. The incidenttook place when a curfew was briefly lifted in theBalata refugee camp near Nablus. Arab reports saidthree were wounded...
Tempers flare and subside along the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but life is not getting any easier for the Nahal soldiers. The unit was dispatched last month to patrol the city of Nablus and its outskirts. The soldiers have been instructed to keep main roads open to traffic and to disperse small threatening crowds on the spot. If the group is large, they are under orders to call in a high-ranking officer. Their commander, Lieut. Colonel Yisrael, detests this assignment. "It's against everything we teach them," he says. "We train them to use their guns when they...
...Asked by the Israeli military judge if they were guilty of the rioting charges lodged against them, all pleaded innocent. They were herded out of court and back to a makeshift detention center in the nearby village of Dahariya to await trial. In another courtroom, in the city of Nablus, an army prosecutor urged the judge to be lenient with Nasser Zuhadi Kakmeh, 16, because the youth had been wounded in the leg while throwing stones and bottles at security forces and was now repentant. "I want to hear it from you," the judge told the defendant. After a long...