A resident of Kahn Yunis in the Gaza Strip was deported to Jordan Monday on grounds that he worked for El Fatah and incited armed action against Israel.
The expulsion of Mohammad Yushuf Dahlan, 26, triggered angry demonstrations in the Gaza Strip town. Security forces used tear gas to disperse the crowds. A commercial strike was declared by local merchants. Classes were disrupted in Gaza schools and a rock was thrown at an Israeli vehicle, bruising the driver.
Dahlan was the 15th Palestinian in the administered territories to be deported since August 1985 when Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin renewed the policy of expulsion for alleged proterrorist activity.
The Israeli authorities charged that Dahlan as head of Shabiba, the El Fatah youth movement, was behind political unrest in the territories for the past year and took his orders from terrorists in Lebanon. Disturbances began in the Gaza Strip when deportation decision was announced three days ago.
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