(newspaper unidentified) · 13 December 1976
CP-1976-050
Tear Gas Used to Quell West Bank Protests
Transcribed from the clipping
TEL AVIV, Dec. 12 (UPI)—Troops used tear gas today to disperse young Arab demonstrators in Nablus, the largest town on the West Bank of Jordan River, and later imposed a curfew on the town.
It was the third time in five days that military authorities had clamped a curfew on the town after young Arabs bombarded Israeli border police with rocks, burned tires in the streets and set up roadblocks. The troops responded with tear gas as the young people chanted anti-Israel slogans and waved the flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The protests were set off when an 8 percent sales tax imposed in Israel was extended to include the administered'territories. The Arabs were also angered by plans to requisition Arab lands in the territory captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war.
How this transcription was made
Masthead not readable on the scan. The label on the slide read: [no masthead on clipping] — A short single-column clipping, read at 6x. The whole item is transcribed. No masthead, date line or page number. The dateline "TEL AVIV, Dec. 12" supports a Dec. 13 publication date; the year rests on Maria's slide label and on the internal detail of the 8 percent sales tax being extended to the occupied territories, which fits December 1976. A stray apostrophe appears in "the administered'territories" and is transcribed as set.
Cite this clipping
"Tear Gas Used to Quell West Bank Protests," (newspaper unidentified), 13 December 1976. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1976-050. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1976-050
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