The World - News from June 26, 1988

An Israeli reserve soldier was slightly wounded when he was stabbed in an encounter with four Arabs near Tel Aviv, the military said. The army said the soldier was wounded when the Arabs tried to wrest his weapon from him as he was hitchhiking. In the West Bank town of Nablus, a 20-year-old Arab was slightly wounded in the leg when soldiers opened fire to disperse protesters in the Arab bazaar, the army said. Yossi Ben-Aharon, a top aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said security services are handling the uprising much more effectively than in the past but added, “I think we’ll have to a varying degree some continuation of this over an extended period.”