Israeli youngsters, aged eight to 12, caused the most trouble yesterday in the Yamit area. Jewish Agency workers who tried to uproot palm trees in the region, to replant them in new villages inside Israel, were foiled by the youngsters who climbed the trees and refused to come down.
It took soldiers several hours to get them down — and even then it was thirst and hunger which did the job rather than military prowess.
Another group of youngsters, members of a Yamit choir group caused a traffic jam of several miles when their re-entry to the Yamit area was barred by soldiers. The youthful singers had left the area to entertain marchers at a “Halt the Withdrawal” movement march outside the closed-off Yamit area.
When they tried to return home they were told by soldiers that the ban on re-entry to Yamif applied to them, also. They sat down on the road and refused to budge for hours while the traffic jam mounted up behind them.
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