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WORLD : Israelis Rampage Through Hebron

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<i> From Times wire services </i>

Israelis rampaged through the Arab city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank today, smashing shop and car windows after Palestinians stoned their buses on the way to a Jewish shrine, witnesses said.

In the occupied Gaza Strip, Arab hospitals said Israeli troops shot and wounded at least 18 Palestinians on the third successive day of heavy casualties.

Arab and Jewish witnesses said Israelis broke 30 shop windows and 20 car windshields in Hebron after their three tour buses came under attack on the way to the nearby Cave of Machpela. Jews believe that the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried there.

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The rampage through Hebron, the West Bank’s second-largest city and a stronghold of hard-line Jewish settlers, was the second incident in three days in which Jews were accused of retaliating against Palestinians who stoned their cars.

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