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Yesterday's death brings to 170 the number of Arabs killed since a rebellion began December 8 among the 1.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel has occupied since capturing them from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 war. An Israeli soldier and Jewish settler also have been killed...
Israel claims the deportees incited much of the violence in the occupied lands that has claimed the lives of 143 Palestinians, one Israeli soldier and a teen-age Jewish settler since it began...
...another development yesterday, an Israeli newspaper said an army inquiry into the killing of a Jewish settler girl in the West Bank village of Beita last week indirectly would blame the shooting on the Jewish guard Roman Aldubi, who was knocked out by a rock during the melee and remains hospitalized...
...miles away, near Ramallah, a Jewish settler was severely burned by a Molotov cocktail lobbed through his car windshield. Fellow settlers responded by rampaging through Anabta while it was under curfew, smashing windows and wrecking cars before Israeli soldiers ordered them away. In the town of Tulkarm, rumors of further settlers' invasions the next day sparked violent protests that left one Palestinian dead. In Gaza, another died of his wounds, bringing the death toll to 43. Defense Minister Rabin angrily called the settlers a "burden" on hard-pressed security forces. But clashes continued throughout the territories, from remote villages...
Others are preoccupied by the fact that Israel is still besieged from within by frequent acts of random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past...