The World - News from July 7, 1988
Israeli troops shot and wounded a 9-year-old Arab boy during clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus, hospital officials said. Arab doctors reported that Israel’s military government has ordered all Palestinian-run government hospitals in the West Bank to stop treating casualties of the Arab uprising free of charge. Meanwhile, unidentified assailants hurled two firebombs at a bus in Jewish West Jerusalem. There were no reports of injuries in the attack on King George Street, the center of the area’s shopping district. Police rushed to the scene to search for suspects and stopped Arab passers-by for identity checks.
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