Israelis Kill 2 Palestinians in Occupied Areas, 4 Guerrillas Off Lebanon

Israeli soldiers Sunday fatally shot two Palestinians during clashes in the occupied territories, a 12-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man, and Israeli sailors destroyed a rubber dinghy off the southern Lebanon coast, killing four Palestinian guerrillas headed toward Israel.

Arab reports said 11 Palestinians were wounded in violence that came on the second day of a general strike in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank city of Hebron, a curfew was imposed after troops shot to death a 60-year-old laborer. The army said the man attacked soldiers with a pitchfork.

Arab reports said the man, Ahmed Mohammed Sneineh, attacked after a soldier struck a woman who was trying to block Sneineh’s arrest.

In the Gaza Strip village of Jabaliya, Mahmoud Dib Nabhan, 12, died of a plastic bullet wound to the chest, and six other youths were injured when the army responded with gunfire to a firebomb attack, Arab reports said.

In the incident at sea, a Libyan-sponsored Palestinian faction opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization peace overtures toward Israel confirmed that four of its guerrillas died in the clash.

The Palestine Popular Struggle Front, based in Syria, said in a statement that an Israeli naval patrol intercepted the guerrillas off Ras el Biyada, six miles north of the Israeli border.

“Our guerrillas fired rockets at the Israeli enemy boats,” the group said in a statement. “The enemy used all kinds of weapons in the clash and dropped flares that lit the whole area.”

Also Sunday, Police Minister Chaim Bar-Lev said Israel is considering blocking West Bank Arabs from going to the Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques in Jerusalem’s Old City because of riots outside the mosques Friday.

About a dozen people were injured in stoning attacks, which spilled over from the mosques to the adjacent Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.

Thirty-seven people were detained in the rioting, many of them from the West Bank, police said.