Palestinians Urged to Boycott Jobs to Protest New ID Cards
Leaders of the anti-Israeli uprising on Tuesday ordered Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to boycott their jobs in Israel for a week to protest restrictive new measures imposed on Arabs in the Gaza Strip.
The order for a seven-day strike, which would be the longest in the 20-month-old uprising, came along with a call for “more stones and knives” in fighting Israeli occupation.
A Palestinian man died Tuesday of a gunshot wound suffered a day earlier in a clash with soldiers, the army said.
Sixteen other Palestinans were reported shot and wounded Tuesday in confrontations with soldiers in the occupied lands, according to Arab reports. One of the victims, a 14-year-old girl from the Askar refugee camp near Nablus, was reported in critical condition with a bullet in the head.
The PLO-backed underground leaders of the uprising said in a communique that the strike should begin Friday, the day the army begins enforcing a new rule that requires Gaza Strip Palestinians to show computerized ID cards to enter Israel.
Cards are denied anyone considered a security risk.
More than 50,000 Gazans work in Israel, as do about 60,000 Palestinians from the West Bank.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
