The World - News from Sept. 18, 1988
Israeli troops killed two Arabs and wounded dozens more in clashes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on the sixth anniversary of a massacre of several hundred Palestinians in two Lebanese refugee camps. At least 40 Palestinians were wounded as Israeli forces raided towns, villages and refugee camps and arrested more than 200 suspected activists, security officials said. A curfew was imposed on 400,000 Palestinians in both territories. A general strike was staged throughout the territories in memory of the 1982 massacre, in which Israeli-backed Lebanese Christian militiamen slaughtered Palestinians in Beirut’s Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.
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