The West Bank remained tense today, with demonstrations, stone-throwing and tire-buming reported from many villages and towns, and in East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
An officer and several so Idiers were injured by stones thrown by youthful demonstrators. A number of Arab demonstrators were detained when caught burning tires or throwing stones. A Swedish journalist was slightly injured by a stone while wolking along the Old City wall to report on unrest.
In Bethlehem, Mayor Elias Freij said he had received a threatening letter from the Village League of Bethlehem, one of the village leagues supported by Israel as a counterweight to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But a league spokesmen said his organization had not sent the letter, which bore no names other than that of the league, and suggested the letter was on act of provocation.
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