Hundreds of Palestinians marched through a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip calling on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to launch missiles on Tel Aviv. The Palestinian Authority imposed a ban on pro-Iraqi demonstrations, but the ban has been widely ignored. A similar demonstration organized by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s own Al Fatah faction was held in the West Bank town of Hebron.
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