Bomb explosion, scattered protests wound four Arabs

By SERGEI SHARGORODSKY, Associated Press Writer

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JERUSALEM — Police wounded two Palestinians and beat several others Saturday in scattered clashes throughout the occupied territories, Arab news reports said. Thousands of Israelis demonstrated to demand negotiations with Palestinians. The army said two Arabs were wounded in Gaza City when the homemade bomb they were preparing went off.

Thousands of Israelis from the left-wing Peace Now movement held a rally near Jerusalem’s residence of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to demand negotiations with Palestinians.

In the northern port city of Haifa, about 4,000 Jews and Israeli Arabs marched in the streets holding signs and shouting slogans that demanded Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel television reported.

The Arab-run Palestine Press Service said two Palestinians were wounded by army gunfire and ten others were injured by beatings or rubber bullets in Saturday’s clashes with the army. The military command said it knew nothing about injuries and described the situation as “quiet.”

A 9-day-old curfew was lifted in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, 37 miles northeast of Jerusalem. About 10,000 Palestinians live there. But more than 20,000 people remained under curfew in the nearby Tulkarem refugee camp, in the village of Anabta, and in the Deir El Balah refugee camp in Gaza.

A military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two Arabs apparently preparing a homemade bomb were wounded when the bomb went off unexpectedly. He said soldiers were not involved in the explosion and that the army was checking the incident.

An Arab reporter in Gaza City said Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, 23, and Mahmoud Nimer Mohammed El Halaby, 24, were brought to the city’s Ahle Arab hospital. He said Ibrahim was wounded in his hands while El Halaby suffered head and chest wounds. The reporter, who requested anonymity, said soldiers came to the hospital to detain El Halaby.

The Palestine Press Service said an Arab in Gaza City was shot by soldiers and four others were beaten. It said another Arab was shot and wounded in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, in the West Bank, and that six others were injured by rubber bullets.

In Jerusalem’s southeastern Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, about 100 youths raised the Palestinian flag and threw stones, advancing towards the nearby hilltop Jewish neighborhood of East Talpiyot.

Dozens of Jewish residents gathered to watch as about 40 policemen and 15 paramilitary border policemen fired tear gas at the Arabs and then ran into Jabel Mukaber, chasing the youths with clubs.

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"Bomb explosion, scattered protests wound four Arabs," Carroll County Times, 14 February 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-091. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-091