Israelis kill 2, wound 3 in new riots

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was submitted to Israeli military censors who ordered several deletions. JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Arabs Saturday and wounded three others in rioting in the occupied West Bank. The army arrested 64 Palestinians in an operation to protect pro-Israeli collaborators.

In northern Israel, four members of a family were wounded by Soviet-designed Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon, military sources said. The wounded were taken to the hospital in the town of Nahariya. It was the first time in 18 months that casualties were reported from Katyusha-rocket attacks from Lebanon.

Nahariya Hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said the victims suffered light to moderate wounds. Israel army radio reported that a Palestinian who was wounded Friday in the occupied Gaza Strip died Saturday at the Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv.

An Arab reporter in Gaza City identified the man as Mohammed Saahin, 32, of the Bureij refugee camp and said he had been shot in the leg and abdomen. The radio report said the man attacked an Israeli officer and the officer shot him. A soldier was injured in Saturday's West Bank fighting, according to the army.

In the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were wounded Saturday by gunshots, 11 suffered beating or rubber-bullet injuries and 18 were arrested, Arab and Israeli news media reported. Saturday's most violent confrontation occurred in Dhahiriya, a West Bank village 28 miles southwest of Jerusalem.

Army officials said a patrol entered the village at about 10 a.m. to quell a violent protest and opened fire after a soldier was injured by the stone-throwing rioters. “We received reports about two fatalities and, apparently, two wounded among the residents,” one army official said.

The casualties were “most likely” the result of the army shooting, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Arab-run Palestine Press Service said Mahel Wreidet, 25, was shot in the chest and died at Jerusalem's Mukassad Hospital. It said another villager, 30-year-old Rasem A. Kadeirat, died at the Alia Hospital in Hebron after being shot in the back.

Officials at the two hospitals confirmed the fatalities. The Arab agency also said a 36-year-old man and two girls, ages 17 and 18, suffered gunshot wounds to the head during the Dhahiriya clash. Israel radio said the army clamped a curfew on the village.

Saturday's fatalities brought to 81 the number of Palestinians killed since violence erupted in the occupied territories on Dec. 8, according to U.N. figures. In Ramallah, Associated Press photographer Martin Cleaver saw about 20 Arab youths hurling stones at soldiers. The youths stayed close to the Ramallah Hospital entrance.

The soldiers surrounded the hospital and fired tear gas at the youths. Sixty-four Palestinians were arrested in three West Bank locations in what the army said was a move to protect pro-Israeli collaborators.

How this transcription was made

Assembled from 2 scans: the front-page opening (s086_1) and the jump (s086_2), which is headed 'ISRAEL / Continued From Page A-1'. The jump picks up mid-account of the Gaza man killed, which the front page leaves at 'died Saturday at the Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv.' Maria's 'same article, keep together' is right. — No masthead on either cut; attribution rests on Maria's label. Worth a check before ingest: the Columbus, Georgia paper sets its name as the 'Ledger-Enquirer', hyphenated. An unhyphenated spelling would enter the archive as a separate paper. — No printed date on either cut. The story is datelined Jerusalem with no date and reports events of 'Saturday'; March 5 1988 was a Saturday, so a Sunday March 6 paper fits Maria's label. The year is fixed by the reference to 81 Palestinians killed since Dec. 8 and by the Shultz peace plan promo, both early 1988. — The whole article across both scans. The second dead villager's middle element is printed as 'A.' followed by what may be a broken colon or a damaged letter; I read 'Rasem A. Kadeirat' but it could be 'Rasem Al Kadeirat', and the scan does not settle it at 8x. The editor's note is transcribed at the head of the excerpt because that is where it sits on the page — above the agency credit and above the dateline. — Under the headline sits a boxed promo with a square bullet: 'Shultz's new Middle East peace plan is a long shot gamble/A-3'. That is a refer to another story, not a deck. — Two clippings of one article, joined into a single image for the record (s086_1.png, s086_2.png).

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"Israelis kill 2, wound 3 in new riots," Ledger-Enquirer, 6 March 1988, p. A-1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-133. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-133