‘Fierce anger over girl’s death
NZPA-Reuter Tel Aviv ! Both sides said it had to happen. For weeks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders had been warning it was only a matter of j time before the first Israeli civilian died in the! Arab uprising in the occupied . West Bank and Gaza' Strip. | In violence that seemed certain to escalate the conflict, a 15-yeaf-old Jewish girl settler was stoned and beaten (to death on Wednesday when villagers 'attacked her group of teen-age hikers. | Adult settlers (escorting the group in the West Bank village of ! Beita, hear Nablus, shot! dead (two Palestinian teenagers before they ran put jof ammunition and | their weapons were seized, the Army said. 11l !' Palestinian sources said the guards started the clash by opening fire without provocation at an Arab while most villagers were working | in the fields. ! “This incident | will surely trigger a dramatic (response of the settlers,” (said Zvi Fishman, spokesman for the Right-wing pressure group, Victims of Arab Terror. Describing the atmosphere at the ultra-nation-alist religious settlement on Elon Moreh, home of the victim, Tirza Porat, a settlement leader,! Benny Katzover, said, “The most fierce anger, uncontrollable anger I would say.” The first news! photographers to reach the scene were attacked and stoned by irate settlers. Angry residents , besieged the Army Chief of Staff, Dan Shomron, at Elon Moreh demanding a shoot-to-kill policy! against stone-throwers and (the deportation of all arrested ' rioters. ! - ! i
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