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Covering the latest round of Palestinian unrest has proved both challenging and painful for everyone in the Jerusalem bureau. "The battle for freedom of the press has been one of the most anguishing parts of the story," says Reporter Robert Slater, who is also head of the Foreign Press Association in Israel. The plight of the nervous young Israeli soldiers who have been sent into the camps to quell the disturbances is another. "I know exactly how they feel," says Reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, a military-affairs expert, who serves in the Israeli army. "Very often I experience a strong...
...combination of soldiers and civilian administrators, has kept rebellion in check with a relentlessly efficient system of control and surveillance. It is a tribute to Israeli security, or to the self-restraint of the Palestinians, that not a single gun has turned up in Palestinian hands during the current unrest. But Jerusalem's peace of mind over the years has come only at the expense of basic civil liberties...
...uniquely positioned to do so, since the P.L.O. is still the only organization in the territories with the money and clout to respond to the Palestinians' needs. The P.L.O. has sent dozens of radio and telephone messages to its friends inside the territories urging them to join in the unrest. P.L.O. officials say they have provided food, medical equipment and money to the inhabitants of the Gaza refugee camps, though camp residents deny it. "The P.L.O. is the only institution these people can go to when they're in trouble or when they need help," says Nabil...
...shabab by cutting off its head. The youth movement is so fluid that the arrest of some 2,000 "leaders" of the uprising seems to have had little effect. There are now some 6,500 soldiers in the occupied territories, five times the number on the ground when the unrest broke out in early December. "We can go on like this for a long time," says army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. "But I know very well that the influence on the forces is a negative one. My main lesson for the future is that such things can and will...
...occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. Though seven have already spent time in prison, six for involvement in terrorism, the Israeli army accused only three of directly fomenting the recent riots; the rest are asserted to be "hard-core agitators." Hamad, though not cited for involvement in the current unrest, is accused of "organizing disturbances and participating in them" in his role as a leader of the Shabiba, a young men's group with close ties to the outlawed Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israelis say that 876 Palestinians have been deported since 1967, while the Arabs put the number...