Israel issues revised prisoner-release figures, saying a total of 3,400 Palestinians released under 5/4 accord with PLO. 1,300 kept in prison for refusing to renounce violence. 320 released 6/16, 229 of them going home, 91 transferred to Palestinian custody. 100 "criminals" opt to stay in Israeli prison rather than Palestinian jails in Gaza. (WT 6/18)
IDF shoots and wounds 4 Palestinians, arrests 5 in clashes in Hebron. (WT 6/18)
Palestinian Center for the Study of Non-Violence (PCSNV) starts campaign to reopen Palestinian homes sealed by Israel. Group opens 40 homes in West Bank, denounces sealing as a "cruel and evil policy." (WT 6/22; CSM, MEI, TJT 6/24)
PLO Chmn. Arafat complains to U.S. Amb. to Tunisia John McCarthy that $42 m. allocated by international donors for establishing Palestinian admin. is an inadequate "pittance." (WT 6/22)
Likud cofounder and frmr. Irgun mbr. Yohanan Bader, 93, dies in Jerusalem. (NYT, WP 6/18; JP 6/25; WJW 6/30)
Klausenberg Rebbe, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, 90, dies in Netanya, northern Israel. (NYT, WP 6/20)