March 25, 2001

Israeli-Palestinian clashes continue, with the largest clashes in Hebron, Nablus. The IDF says several of its posts in Gaza are hit by homemade Palestinian mortars, causing no injuries. The IDF shells residential areas of Jinin. Jewish settlers attack Palestinians and their property in Hebron, bulldoze Palestinian land nr. Tulkarm to expand Avni Hefetz settlement. In Tulkarm, tanzim mbrs. kidnap an Israeli civilian at gunpoint fr. a local restaurant where he is dining with 3 Israeli Arab friends (see 1/23); PSF officers intervene to free the man. (HP, MM, NYT 3/26)

Across Egypt, 1,000s of university students demonstrate to demand that Arab governments do more to help the Palestinians. (NYT 3/26)