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These are days of rage in Israel's occupied territories. In the past two weeks, widespread unrest has not only turned the Gaza Strip into a war zone but also spawned strikes and violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Faced with the worst riots in the territories since seizing them in the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel responded with an iron fist. Pitched battles between rock- throwing demonstrators and gun-toting soldiers left at least 17 Palestinians dead and more than a hundred wounded. Since the violence started on Dec. 8, hundreds have been arrested and detained. Denounced...
...cars carrying Arab workers, killing four of them, in retaliation for the murder of an Israeli merchant. By the next morning much of Gaza was covered with smoke from burning tire barricades. Thousands marched through the dirt streets carrying photocopied pictures of local youths who had died in the unrest. In the following days, troops attempting to disperse the demonstrators were greeted with showers of stones, iron bars and fire bombs. Soldiers were attacked by gangs of children, some as young as six, who disappeared into the labyrinthine alleyways of the refugee camps. Some troops answered the volleys of rocks...
Officials at Branders University this week denied reports that the addition of pork and shellfish to the campus cuisine has cost the school millions of dollars in alumni support and led to widespread student unrest at the predominantly Jewish school...
...unrest that has been plaguing the country since Duvalier fled reached a peak as voting day drew near. Two presidential candidates were killed, and scattered violence took place in both the capital and in the countryside. In the week before the voting was to have taken place at least 28 people were killed in election-related incidents. The canceled election is unlikely to end the unrest and violence, as Haiti struggles to find its way into the post- Duvalier era. Said Conserve Dorleans, 21, an unemployed worker who had been eagerly awaiting the election: "We have our brigades...
Throughout the 16-year history of Bangladesh, unrest and martial law have seemed to be an almost permanent part of political life. Since late October, President Hussain Mohammad Ershad has arrested some 2,000 opposition figures, including the women leaders of the two main opposition parties, for calling for his overthrow. Last week, unable to negotiate an end to the protests, Ershad completed the cycle by declaring a new state of emergency in his troubled country of 105 million people...