Curfew for Arabs in Gaza Strip
The army clamped curfews today on 180,000 Arabs living in Gaza Strip refugee camps to prevent violence after activists called a general strike Saturday to mark the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Lebanon.
Indefinite curfews were imposed on the refugee camps Bureij, Jabaliya, Nusseirat, Khan Yunis and Shati to prevent clashes during the anniversary. Four West Bank villages also were under curfew. In Gaza City, Islamic militants belonging to the underground group Hamas, or Zeal, painted graffiti calling on merchants to observe the strike. One slogan, written in Hebrew and Arabic, read “Death to the Jews,” Arab witnesses said.
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