The News Star · Monroe, Louisiana · December 1988
CP-1988-025
Oppression embitters Gaza refugees
Carol Rose, Gannett News Service, Jabalia Refugee Camp, Occupied Gaza Strip
Transcribed from the clipping
“JABALIA REFUGEE CAMP, Occupied Gaza Strip — Smoke from a burning tire splashes as orange and black streaks of protest against the gray morning sky. Open sewers turn unpaved streets to mud and fill the air with the stench of human waste. ‘Soldiers!’ shriek a group of children as they scatter down alleys. A jeep stops in the road.
Five Israeli soldiers pile out and use M-16 rifles to force male passers-by to—”
Context added by this archive
The scan is 283 pixels wide across two columns and a map, so only the byline and the opening paragraphs have been re-read against it. The map beside the story is headed “Gaza strip.”
Cite this clipping
"Oppression embitters Gaza refugees," The News Star, December 1988, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-025
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