Israel Deports 8 Arabs Over Unrest
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JERUSALEM — Israel deported eight more Palestinians to Lebanon on Monday, accusing them of taking part in violent protests during the eight-month-old uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Six other Arabs were ordered expelled, security sources said.
The eight expulsions took place at the start of a two-day strike called by underground leaders of the uprising in protest against the policy of deportation. The move raised to about 30 the number of Palestinians deported since the uprising began.
The Palestinians--six from the West Bank and two from the Gaza Strip--were let off an Israeli army helicopter near the Lebanese town of Marjayoun, 8 miles north of Israel’s border. The town is inside the Israeli-proclaimed “security zone” set up as a buffer north of the Israeli border.
Among the deportees was a journalist with Jerusalem’s Arabic-language Al Fajr newspaper, a lecturer from Birzeit University near Ramallah and a labor leader from nearby Al Bireh.
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