One Arab death, three hurt, in Israelis’ march
JERI SALEM. April 2d. Violence erupted on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan \cstcrdav when an Arab was killed and three others wounded in clashes between Israeli security forces and the demonstrators.
The violent incidents occurred as tens of thousands of ultranationalist Israelis completed their two-day march through the area to demand more Jewish settlements on the West Bank. One Arab was killed and; two were injured when an ; Israeli military patrol and an I (Arab crowd clashed in the Casbah quarter of Nablus, the' [West Bank's largest town I Another Arab was shot and wounded during a street deImonstration in Jenin, to the north. The man who died. Mr Zayid Taher Ajba. aged 55. I was later buried in a ceremony attended by thousands.
Al] shops in Nablus were closed during the funeral, and some Arabs threw stones (at passing Israeli vehicles | The 20-mile march passed 'off without incident until the participants approached the 'finishing point on the out[skirts of Jericho. Some observers think that (the march and the renewed I (violence that followed the ■death of four Arabs in earlier West Bank riots, max '(well result in a full-scale ‘ Cabinet discussion of Jewish ■'settlement in the occupied i areas. 1 The Foreign Minister (Mr - Yiga) Allon) and several ■other Ministers hax- called [for the issue to be debated -while the Minister of Dr /fence (Mr Shimon Peres) has ■ i come out m favour of limited .(settlement
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34133, 21 April 1976, Page 15
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