Staten Island Advance · Staten Island, New York · 20 December 1987
CP-1987-007
Palestinian youths riot
With: ‘Nothing to lose’ in camps
The Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — The violence wracking Israel’s occupied territories spread to Arab east Jerusalem yesterday, when mobs of Palestinian youths trashed Israeli buildings, stoned police cars and burned tires.
Thirty-three Palestinians were arrested and four Israeli policemen were slightly injured, police said, in what was called the worst violence in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem in more than a decade. It was the 12th straight day of upheaval in land seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Military officials say 15 Arabs have been killed.
Palestinian reports put the toll at 20… The Arab sector of the city, captured from Jordan along with the West Bank, is home to about 130,000 Palestinians… In the worst incident, about 40 youths smashed the glass storefront of Barclay’s Israel Discount Bank with rocks, tore apart the bank’s neon sign, then charged inside, smashing partitions and destroying equipment, witnesses said.”
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Runs above ads for Bath Beach Health Spas and an electric guitar holiday special
Cite this clipping
"Palestinian youths riot," Staten Island Advance, 20 December 1987, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1987-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1987-007
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