The general protest strike in the Gaza Strip which began Saturday on a call from Arab terrorist groups to protest evacuation of refugee camps in the Strip for security road construction, appeared today to have fizzled out completely. The terrorists had called for a week-long action. Officials said that even by the second day it had become apparent that the strike could not last. Residents of the Strip were unable to accumulate enough food for a week, workers had to be back on the job and merchants–some of whom closed their shops but quickly reopened them yesterday after Israeli engineering units sealed the doors of some shut-down shops–wanted to sell their products. Some 30 buses and 45 trucks collected Gaza Strip residents for work this morning as usual, shops opened on schedule and buses and taxis moved in town and between towns as usual. Even at the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, where workers did not appear Saturday and Sunday, work was resumed this morning with all workers reporting for duty. Even Strip army patrols were reduced to normal patrol routines, officials reported.
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