Word: nahalin
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...trouble began just before dawn. Observing the ritual for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nahalin last week ended their prayers at the village mosque before sunrise and prepared for another day of fasting. Suddenly about 100 rifle-toting Israeli border policemen swarmed into Nahalin to make arrests, imposing a curfew on its 3,000 residents. Shouting vulgar insults, the Israelis started searching for young Palestinians suspected of stoning the cars of Jewish settlers traveling on nearby roads. Confronted by a stone-throwing mob, the policemen opened fire, killing a 28-year...
Within hours, grim reports began rolling in. Israel charged Jordan with machine-gunning to death a 50-year-old watchman in Kissalon. Two days later, Jordan reported that in the dead of night Israeli troops hit Nahalin, just across the border from Kissalon, with machine guns, mines and grenades. While local national guardsmen stood off the attackers, Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb's Arab Legion raced to the rescue. Outnumbered, the Israelis fought their way three miles back to the border, carrying dead and wounded with them. Jordan's casualties: nine dead, including one woman...
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