Ten young Arabs, three of them women, were wounded by Israeli troops in flare-ups of violence on the West Bank during the past 24 hours. Five of the casualties occurred in the center of Ramallah this morning when Israeli forces opened fire on stone-throwing Arab youths wounding two women and three men.
Four other Arab youths were wounded this morning in clashes with Israeli patrols in Bethlehem. The incidents followed the wounding of a 16-year-old high school girl, Sahar Maussa Brahim, in a stone throwing melee at the El Bireh high school yesterday. She was reported in satisfactory condition at the Ramallah hospital today.
The latest wave of unrest on the West Bank was attributed to the Military Government’s shut-down of Bir Zeit College after its students and faculty went on strike to protest the Israeli ban of “Palestine Week”, an annual campus event. The strike touched off demonstrations by Arab youths which escalated into near riots, the erection of road blocks and stoning of Israeli vehicles. Official reports of the incidents said Israeli troops fired their weapons only after the demonstrators refused to disperse. They fired warning shots into the air and when those had no effect, they fired toward the ground, the reports said. Most of the wounded were hit in the legs. (By David Landau.)
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