Three young Arab women of Gaza whose arrest on charges of complicity in terrorist activities was believed to have sparked five days of demonstrations by Gaza high school girls which ended in a riot yesterday, received suspended sentences from the local military commander today and were released from jail. Brig. Gen. Mordechai Gur suspended a three year sentence passed on a 19-year-old student at a teachers seminary who allegedly served as “paymaster” for terrorist groups along with two years sentences imposed on a 21-year-old teacher and a 19-year-old high school student for allegedly harboring terrorists. The “paymaster” was accused of transmitting funds from Jordan to sabotage gangs active in the Gaza Strip. All three of the accused pledged to end their activities on behalf of terrorists.
But all was not quiet in Gaza today. Five local Arabs were injured by a hand grenade thrown in a square. Five high school girls were still hospitalized in the aftermath of a bloody clash with truncheon-swinging Israeli police in which 95 girls were injured. The melee occurred outside the Saladin high school where hundreds of girls had set up a road block and were stoning passing vehicles. An Israeli girl soldier and a civilian were injured in one of the cars. The Arab girls had been demonstrating for nearly a week, shouting anti-Israeli and pro-Nasser slogans.
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