Honolulu Star-Bulletin · Honolulu, Hawaii · 10 November 1981
CP-1981-002
Israel Soldiers Patrol Town; Shops Closed
By Arthur Max, Associated Press, Ramallah, Occupied West Bank
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“RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank (AP) — Israeli soldiers patrolled this restive Palestinian town today in a show of strength that blocked a planned business strike. But in nearby Jerusalem most shops were shut. Troops in the streets of Ramallah carried truncheons and equipment to force open locks of shuttered shops.
When stores opened and life appeared normal, most troops withdrew. In Jerusalem, which unlike the West Bank of the Jordan River is under police jurisdiction rather than military occupation, shopkeepers responded to the call by West Bank unions to strike, and most Arab schools closed shortly after they opened.
‘We are acting with the utmost restraint, both toward those who closed their stores and toward those who opened them and need our protection,’ said Jerusalem Police Chief Rahamim Confort. ‘But we will act to nip any disorders whatsoever in the bud.’
No effort was made to force the shops to open, but two youths were arrested for unfurling a Palestinian flag in Arab Jerusalem… West Bank leaders reject the form of autonomy offered by Israel as a cover for continued occupation and say they want full Palestinian statehood.
Last night Israeli occupation authorities summoned the rector and board of governors of Bir Zeit College and warned them against permitting more anti-Israeli activity on campus… Bir Zeit spokesman Albert Aghzarian said: ‘Once again, this national Palestinian university has been singled out for collective punishment as part of a larger political scheme to deny the Palestinian peole its rights to self-determination.’… Israel Radio said Al Fajr, an Arab daily published in Jerusalem, was closed for 10 days for violating military censorship, and the editor of another daily, A-Shaab, was arrested.
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon told a news conference yesterday that Bir Zeit was closed because he could not allow a campus to shelter ‘people who stone cars or block roads.’”
Context added by this archive
The dateline is Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, and the phrase Israeli occupation authorities is in the paper’s own sentence. Two youths arrested for unfurling a flag, two newspapers shut or their editors arrested, and Sharon’s reason printed last. “peole” is the paper’s.
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"Israel Soldiers Patrol Town; Shops Closed," Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 10 November 1981, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1981-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1981-002
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