Israeli border police wounded an Arab youth in Nablus Tuesday when they opened fire on a crowd of stone-throwing supporters of PLO chief Yasir Arafat. The youth was hospitalized for leg wounds. According to Israeli sources, the fracas began when an Israeli vehicle was stoned near the Nablus marketplace by young Arabs demonstrating in support of the Palestine National Council meeting now going on in Amman.
Occupants of the vehicle summoned the border police who were also pelted with stones. Military sources said the demonstrators ignored an order by the police commander to cease, whereupon the unit fired tear gas and then fired bullets into the air.
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