Word: tear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem, police spokesman Rafi Levy said two Israeli school children were slightly injured yesterday when Arab protesters hurled stones at them while they were touring the Old City walls. In a separate incident, police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Arabs outside the walled Old City, Levy said...
...Israelis have tried tear gas, rubber bullets and real ones, mass arrests, imprisonment and deportations. All of those strategies have failed to stop the wave of unrest that has engulfed Israel's occupied territories during the past seven weeks. So last week Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin shifted tactics one more time. From now on, he said, his soldiers would not fire on stone-tossing protesters -- they would beat them...
...served. The room was a chilly concrete square furnished with plush red sofas and a cabinet full of china figurines. Osama unwound a red-and-white-checked kaffiyeh from his head as he began talking. He was fresh out of jail, having served 14 days for throwing a tear-gas canister back at Israeli soldiers. "The army is the provocation," he said. "The fact that they come into our camp is enough so that the shabab react by throwing stones." Osama admitted to being a provocateur. "Since he was a kid, he has belonged to the profession of stone thrower...
Suddenly a tear-gas canister struck the window, and peppery fumes wafted in. The women wrapped scarves around their faces, the men their kaffiyehs. Soon came the sound of rubber bullets ricocheting off the walls outside, then the shuffle of feet running for cover. "I have no future," said Tarek Ali matter of factly. "How can I, as long as I am not liberated from this occupation...
Osama told of the folk remedies used to ward off Israel's punitive measures: onions for the eyes, lemons for the stomach to counter the effect of tear gas. There is no remedy for the rubber bullets, which burn the skin and sometimes break bones. The day before, Osama noted, soldiers threw rocks at the shabab from their helicopters. When it gets too rough, he said, "we run away for a while, then get together again to wait for the next time...