A Palestinian youth was killed Wednesday and a border policeman stabbed Thursday in the West Bank, as tension in the administered territories rose with the end of the Persian Gulf war and in anticipation of the coming visit by Secretary of State James Baker next week.
The youth, 18-ycar-old Adli al-Bargouthi, was shot by Israel Defense Force troops in the West Bank village of Deir Rassanah, near Ramallah, after the troops were hit by rocks thrown by Palestinian rioters who refused an order to disperse.
The injured policeman, who had been standing on guard at the vehicle license bureau in Nablus, was rushed to the hospital suffering from moderate wounds. He was attacked by a local Arab, who came from behind and stabbed his neck before fleeing the scene.
The army clamped a curfew on Nablus and the surrounding refugee camps, in an effort to lay its hands on the attacker.
The violence seems to mark a resumption of the intifada, which was quelled during the six-week Persian Gulf war by a curfew imposed by Israeli authorities.
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