Israel deports 3 Palestinian West Bank leaders after ambush

Associated Press, Hebron, Israeli Occupied West Bank

Transcribed from the clipping

“The Arab mayor of the occupied city of Nablus, Bassam Shakaa, said: ‘We are now in the struggle for the Palestinian nation.’”

Context added by this archive

Thirty-one days later the Journal Herald reported that Bassam Shakaa had lost both legs and Karim Khalaf a foot in coordinated car bombings, and in 1983 the Associated Press called those bombings the most notorious unsolved case in the territory. The archive holds the sentence and what followed it.

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"Israel deports 3 Palestinian West Bank leaders after ambush," Central New Jersey Home News, 4 May 1980. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-011

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