At least two people were injured in scattered incidents in the West Bank and East Jerusalem Monday.
A Samaritan woman was admitted to Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem for treatment of moderate burns she received in a firebomb attack on the Nablus branch of the Bank Leumi. Several bank employees were injured, none seriously.
A border policeman suffered a slight neck injury in an encounter with young rock-throwers in Jerusalem’s Old City. The youths were dispersed with tear gas.
Vandals defaced a memorial to members of a Hadassah Hospital convoy killed in a 1948 ambush on the Mount Scopus road.
The memorial, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, was quickly repaired. Mayor Teddy Kollek said he hoped this was the last of such incidents.
A memorial to Jordanian soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem in 1967 was vandalized on Jan. 12.
That was probably the work of Jewish settlers angered because the authorities refused to let them erect a stone memorial to Shimon Edri, an Israeli taxi driver murdered by Arabs in the West Bank a week earlier.
Israel Defense Force policy does not allow settlers to hold gatherings outside the boundaries of their settlements.
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