Word: nablus
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...Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian population reacted to the invasion of Lebanon with muted anger. Many, including former Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus, seemed convinced that Israel was determined to liquidate the P.L.O. and the Palestinian people as well, and were shocked by the failure of Arab states to come to their aid. The daily newspaper Al-Qudus, published in Jerusalem, denounced the Arab governments as "rotten regimes." On July 6, Israeli soldiers used bullets and tear gas to disperse a student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed...
...continued Israeli domination. Some threw stones. Others were armed with the very weapon that David had used in his fight against Goliath, the slingshot. At least three Palestinians were killed, and more than 50 were injured in clashes with Israeli troops and police. Half the injuries took place in Nablus, one of four West Bank towns whose elected mayors have been forced from office by Israeli authorities in the past two months. Five secondary schools on the West Bank have been closed indefinitely...
...school in Ramallah, a 16-year-old student was shot in the hip. In Gaza City and Rafah, scenes of the most violent rioting, huge rocks were hurled at passing Israeli cars and military patrols. As Israeli troops responded, at least 40 Palestinians were injured by rifle fire. In Nablus, Arab youths barricaded the road outside the Balata refugee camp with a wall of refrigerators. In the Judean Hills, the Haifa-Jerusalem train was brought to a halt by obstacles on the track, then stoned by Arab youths...
...West Bank, the Palestinian population learned of the shootings on an Arabic-language news broadcast at 11:30 a.m., some 90 minutes after Goodman had been taken into custody. Almost immediately, storekeepers began to close down their shops in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron and other major communities. Demonstrations broke out in several West Bank towns, a resumption of the general disorder that had afflicted the area sporadically for several weeks...
...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...