The Palestine Chronology

Military Action

Arab World: Action in S. Lebanon: IDF ambush resistance unit on banks of Litani River; 3 killed [LT 3/30].

Social/Economic/Political

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Rabbi Moshe Levinger announces end of 3-mo. "protest vigil" outside Dheisheh camp [JP 2/19]. Trial of David Ben-Shimol [charged with 10/84 rocket attack on Arab bus, earlier bombing of E. Jerusalem cafe] begins in Jerusalem [JP 2/19]. IDF court in Ramallah orders 7 Dheisheh youths arrested 1/31 detained additional 50 days [FJ 2/22].

Military Action

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Israeli bus burned by 4 masked men after stopping it south of Dura near Hebron [JP 2/19].

Arab World: IDF colonel killed, 2 SLA soldiers wounded during ambush in 'Arab Salim, S. Lebanon. IDF major killed by roadside bomb in al-Bazouriya, S.Lebanon [JP 2/19].

Social/Economic/Political

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Deposed Ramallah mayor Karim Khalaf supports 2/11 Arafat-Hussein accord [deposed Nablus mayor Bassam al-Shak'a, Abna' al-Balad movement oppose agreement] [FJ 2/22]. 25 women prisoners end hunger strike [begun 2/12] at Neve Tertza prison after receiving promises of better treatment [FJ 2/22].

Military Action

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Israeli bus stoned near al-Amari camp; one passenger injured; authorities close furniture shop in vicinity [JP 2/18]. After High Court of Justice refuses 2 stays of deportation, authorities deport Fateh figure 'Abd al-'Aziz Shahin to Lebanon [imprisoned in 1967 for "armed infiltration;" released in 1982, he was forced to live incommunicado in Dahaniya, Gaza strip until his deportation] [JP 2/18, FJ 2/22].

Arab World: Action in S. Lebanon: assassinations of collaborators continue in wake of Israeli withdrawal from Sidon area [NYT 2/18]. Roadside bomb kills IDF soldier, wounds 3, in al-Bazouriya UP 2/18]. IDF soldier killed in ambush near Nabatiya [WP 2/19].