The World - News from April 16, 1989
The Israeli army extended curfews to much of the occupied lands to prevent violence on the anniversary of PLO military chief Khalil Wazir’s assassination. Soldiers reportedly shot and killed one Palestinian. Throughout the territories, residents observed a general strike to protest the killings of at least five Palestinians last week. Wazir, the military commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was gunned down in Tunis, Tunisia, on April 16, 1988, by suspected Israeli commandos. Underground leaders of the 16-month-old Palestinian uprising have called for a “day of mass rage” to mark today’s anniversary of his death.
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