Vol.61/No.2 January 13, 1997
Tensions Sharpen In Mideast
As we go to press, tensions sharpened in the West Bank
over the continued Israeli occupation of the city of Hebron
and the refusal of Tel Aviv to abide by previous agreements
and withdraw its troops from the city. Under the accords
between Tel Aviv and the Palestine Liberation Organization,
Israeli forces were supposed to have been withdrawn from
the Palestinian city last March, but the Israeli regime
continues to stall. On January 1 an Israeli soldier, Noam
Friedman, opened gunfire in a crowded marketplace (above),
wounding six Palestinians. He said his intent was to block
any withdrawal from Hebron. Israeli officials immediately
began painting a picture of Friedman as mentally ill. Yasir
Abed Rabbo, the Palestinian minister of information,
replied, "If these claims that the settler is
psychologically ill, which is something that is repeated
every time there is a criminal act against Palestinians,
are true, why do they insist on arming these psychological
patients?"
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