At least 12 Palestinians were wounded in fierce clashes with Israeli security forces Monday, as the Palestinian uprising entered its 14th month.
Arab sources put the wounded at 15 or more. The West Bank and Gaza Strip were shut down, meanwhile, by a general strike that seemed to be 100 percent effective.
The strike was observed in response to Leaflet No. 32 issued by the underground command of the intifada, as the Palestinians call their uprising.
The leaflet urged the two rival factions in the intifada, Yasir Arafat’s Al Fatah and Hamas, a Moslem fundamentalist group seeking to supplant the secular Palestine Liberation Organization, to set aside their differences.
The call for unity was heeded. Shops were shuttered throughout the territories. There was no public transportation, and many Arab workers stayed home from their jobs in Israel.
Nevertheless, some 300,000 students were expected to return to classes in the West Bank on Tuesday.
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