Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 6/30/1997
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of June 30, 1997
- Barak headed Abu Jihad assassination
Israeli opposition leader Ehud Barak headed the command center that oversaw the assassination of the PLO's military chief in 1988, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on July 4. Israel-Palestine, Politics, 7/4/1997 - Israeli occupation troops wound 24 Arabs in Hebron
Dozens of Arab youths broke away from a peaceful protest, which Palestinian dignitaries called in response to the discovery of the crudely drawn posters, and threw rocks and gasoline bombs at soldiers settlers. Palestine, Local, 7/3/1997 - Netanyahu apologizes over posters
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the derogatory posters plastered on the walls of Arab shops in the West Bank town of Hebron. Palestine, Politics, 7/3/1997 - Arafat consults France's Chirac on Mideast peace
Palestinian authority chairman Yasser Arafat arrived in Paris on June 30 for talks with French President Jaques Chirac and new prime minister Lionel Jospin aimed at ending an impasse in the Middle East peace process. Palestine, Politics, 7/2/1997 - PLO seek Israeli help to control fire
PLO police sought Israeli help to extinguish a fire which engulfed two Palestinian factories in an industrial area of self-ruled Ramallah yesterday, witnesses said. Palestine, Local, 7/1/1997 - Palestinians call for strike over Israel tax raids
Palestinian businesses in Arab east Jerusalem will shut down in a general strike next week in protest at Israeli tax raids, an East Jerusalem Chamber of Commerce official said. Israel-Palestine, Politics, 6/30/1997