Friday, June 10, 1988

Social/Economic/Political

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Sit-in strikes are held in Bethlehem and Bayt Sahur to protest raids by tax collectors [FJ 6/12].

Other Countries: Democratic presidential nominee apparent, Michael Dukakis, reiterates his belief that U. S. Embassy in Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem [NYT 6/11, WP 6/11].

Military

Occupied Palestine/Israel: Israeli security police arrest and demolish house of 26-year-old Palestinian who confessed to attacking the Israeli appointed mayor of al-Birah [NYT 6/11, WP 6/11]. Troops order 100 Israelis to leave the W. Bank village of Bayta; the Israelis were planting olive trees to protest the army's treatment of the village in the wake of the shooting death of a 15-year-old Israeli girl [WP 6/10]. Protests erupt in Gaza City following Friday prayers [FJ 6/12].