Security forces closed down the Kadri Tukan school in Nablus today after a clash between students and two Jewish settlers, civilian employes of the Israel Defense Force, resuted in the wounding of one Arab youth. Seventeen students were detained.
According to security sources, students threw rocks at an Israeli vehicle in which the settlers were riding. They left the car to give chase. The Israelis said they fired into the air. But one youth was taken to a local hospital with a bullet wound in his stomach.
Security forces who rushed to the scene were also stoned. They ordered the school shut for one day.
A curfew remained in force in Adik and Burkin villages in northern Samaria. It was imposed Sunday night after an Israeli bus came under fire in the vicinity. An Israeli woman passenger was wounded.
Meanwhile, Yosef Martin, the 20-year-old Israeli soldier stabbed Sunday night near the Damascus Gate in the Old City, was reported off the critical list at Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus where he had undergone emergency surgery.
Martin, a tank commander on active duty was strolling with his friend, Yael Hayoun, 20, a soldier from Yavneel. Neither of them was in uniform. The assailant who plunged a kitchen knife into Martin’s back escaped.
The stabbing was the second near the Damascus Gate within a week. The first victim, Ovadia Baruchi, 60, remains hospitalized but is recovering. Police investigating both attacks have made no arrests so far.
Many Israelis are shying away from the Old City but tourists continue to go there.
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