Palestinians hurled firebombs and stones at Israeli soldiers in three West Bank towns, prompting the soldiers to respond with rubber bullets that wounded at least 20 people. The Palestinians were protesting the deaths of three Arabs who were killed a day earlier, when Israeli troops opened fire on a van at a roadblock near Hebron. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his sorrow about the roadblock incident during a call to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, who had publicly referred to it as a “big crime.”
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