Low-key Arab protest
NZPA-Reuter Jerusalem Palestinian shopkeepers on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Ggza Strip staged a strike at the week-end to mark the fourth anniversary of riots- against expropriation of Arab land, but only about 10,000 Israeli Arabs attended memorial gatherings. The one-day strike commemorated the deaths of six Israeli Arabs ■ in the ■ .1976 clashes with security forces. East Jersalem’s usually bustling market stayed closed. But Israel’s 500.000-strong Arab minority itself turned out in relatively small numbers at four memorial gatherings at villages in central Israel and Galilee.
About-3500 gathered in the Galilean village of Arabe where four residents died in the 1976 riots over Israel’s taking of Arab land to promote Jewish settlement plans. Five hundred ' Bedouin tribesmen staged a similar gathering in the southern. Negev Desert. They are threatened with losing their land to two air bases planned to replace those lost by Israel in its handing over of the Sinai Desert to Egypt.
No serious incidents were reported during the day.
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