Supporters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement burned an American flag and blew up a cardboard model of a Jewish settlement. The demonstration in the West Bank town of Nablus, which drew 3,000 supporters, was part of ongoing celebrations marking the 1965 founding of Fatah.
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