The World - News from June 30, 1988
Israeli soldiers shot and wounded two Arabs in Nablus when a masked group used slingshots to hurl rocks at the soldiers during a tax collection raid aimed at stamping out underground resistance in the occupied West Bank, army and Palestinian sources said. There was also an unconfirmed report that troops had killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy during a clash in the West Bank village of Taiyiba. In East Jerusalem, police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 100 Arab schoolgirls who staged a demonstration near the U.S. Consulate calling for the reopening of their school. Israeli officials have closed 34 schools in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
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