Military government officials and police today were investigating a blast in front of a movie house in the Gaza Strip town of Kahn Yunis Friday night which fatally injured a 14-year-old Arab boy and wounded 11 other persons. It was assumed initially that local inter-Arab feuding was behind the incident though some sources said it might have been a terrorist reprisal against the movie house owner who operated his business as usual under the Israel regime.
The blast was caused by a hand grenade hurled into a crowd waiting on line to enter the theater. The injured were rushed to a hospital where the youngster died. The Gaza municipality called for official mourning. In other incidents, two civilian employers of the Lapidot Oil form were injured when their jeep hit a mine in the Gaza Strip and a window was shattered in the United States consulate in Jerusalem when an explosive charge went off near the building.
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