Israeli Military Clamps Down Lid on 1.25 Million in Occupied Lands : Curfew: Unrest continues in West Bank and Gaza, however, leaving two dead. Protests also erupt in Israel.

Israeli military authorities, trying to curtail Palestinian protests over the massacre of Muslim worshipers in Hebron last week, on Monday ordered more than 1.25 million residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to remain in their homes.

But the sweeping curfew, imposed on almost every Arab city, town and refugee camp in the two regions, failed to halt the unrest as youths attacked army patrols, blocked roads with burning tires and stoned cars.

Two men--one a 65-year-old walking to a Hebron mosque to pray, the other a young lawyer going to court in Nablus--were killed as Israeli troops opened fire in clashes with demonstrators.

Violent protests also continued in Israel itself as Israeli Arabs in Nazareth and towns in the Galilee region demonstrated for the third day in solidarity with the Palestinians. Police arrested 52 people in Nazareth after rioters attacked Jewish motorists and stoned government offices and banks.

Thousands of Israeli Arabs attended the funeral, conducted under Palestinian flags and anti-Israeli slogans, of a Bedouin killed by police Sunday, the first Israeli Arab to die in clashes with police since 1976. Police were ordered out of the town in the Negev Desert for the funeral, and no violence was reported.

Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, overwhelmingly approved a resolution strongly condemning the Hebron massacre carried out by an Israeli settler, a Brooklyn-born physician from the extremist Kach movement, who killed 48 Muslims as they knelt in prayer before he was overpowered and killed himself.

“As a Jew, as an Israeli, as a man and as a human being, I am ashamed for the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer,” Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Knesset as he provided details on the incident, the government’s crackdown on Kach and other extremist groups and its efforts to salvage the peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization.

“This murderer came out of a small and marginal political context,” Rabin said. “He grew in a swamp whose murderous sources . . . are foreign to Judaism--they are not ours.

“To him and those like him, we say: ‘You are not part of the community of Israel. You are not part of the national democratic camp. . . . You are not partners in the Zionist enterprise. . . . Sensible Judaism spits you out. You placed yourself outside the wall of the Jewish law. You are a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism,’ ” Rabin said.

With detention orders authorized by the Cabinet, security police are searching for four leading figures in Kach and its affiliates; one settler has already been detained without trial for three months. The army is preparing to restrict the movements and activities of 15 other settlers and to disarm 20 more. Kach will probably be outlawed as well, Rabin said.

“We are proud of our democracy--there are few like it in the world,” he said. “We will not allow anyone in Israel or in the territories under its control . . . to determine or change the policy of the government by blackmail or the trigger and false messianic claims.

“No political movement, secular or religious, no pressure group will dare raise its hand against democracy here,” he said. “We as a government will stand like a wall and will vigorously employ all legal means, even if it requires force, to resist such an attempt.”

But some Cabinet members believe that even stronger measures are required.