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Wednesday, February 17, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Arab youths buried alive by soldiers, general says
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel's deputy chief of staff said yesterday that some soldiers had committed "totally unacceptable" acts against Palestinians, and hospital officials reported eight Arabs wounded by troops in the West Bank.
Maj. Gen. Ehud Barak also said more than 200 Israelis had been injured, most of them lightly, since Arab riots began Dec. 8 in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. He said 53 Palestinians had been killed, but the United Nations puts the number at 54.
Ousted Iranian palaces Barak and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin confirmed that some soldiers used a bulldozer to bury four Palestinians alive near Nablus in the West Bank. The general said, "This pattern of behavior . . . is totally unacceptable under the standards of the Israeli Defense Forces and any civilized norms. Whoever is found responsible for this event will be punished."
Neighbors rescued the four Arabs shortly after they were buried.
Young Palestinians set fire to a bus yesterday, burned tires and built road blocks in the occupied territories and Arab east Jerusalem, where a general strike virtually closed down Arab communities and neighborhoods.
"We knew we wouldn't allow the boat to reach Israel," he said on Israel radio. "If we could prevent its departure, that was obviously the right thing to do."
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In the West Bank, a soldier punched and
shoved an Israeli cameraman working for
NBC News.
Barak said soldiers had to choice but to use beatings in an attempt to curb the riots.
"Whatever amount of force is needed. . . is something that in my judgment is forced upon us by the situation," he told a news conference of foreign reporters.
"We can't easily put the realities of life into a simple set of orders. The situation created during the control of a violent riot is much more complicated than it might seem."
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said on a visit to Italy: "We want to put an end to the riots and restore normal life. On the other hand, we don't want to kill people. . . I hope in the near weeks we will find the most right methods."
Native students talk of West Bank, Gaza
Bv Kathleen Faddis
Chances for peace little, students say
Kansan staff writer
The violence in Israel's occupied territories needs to stop, but there is little hope for a peaceful solution, several Palestinian and Israeli students said yesterday.
The West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip have been occupied by Israel since the six-day war in 1967. Since Dec. 8, at least 54 Palestinians have been killed in riots in the region.
University of Kansas senior Amy Ayad is a Palestinian from East Jerusalem on the West Bank. He said that he watched news reports every day and clipped articles from newspapers to pin on his walls.
He said that he was proud to see his people fighting with only stones, but that he was scared by the violence and the killing.
"I cry a lot every time I see it," he said. Mahmoud Ali, senior, is another Palestinian who attends KU. His family left the West Bank for Jordan in 1958, but he said
he wished that they had stayed. He still has relatives in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Ali said that he watched the news two or three times a day and read two newspapers.
"I feel frustrated and depressed," he said. "The most I can do is write and inform people about the situation."
Both Ali and Ayyad said communication with their families within the occupied territories was difficult. They said they were afraid that their telephone conversations were being monitored, so they didn't discuss what was happening.
"All I can tell them is, 'please be careful and be safe.' " Ayad said.
Both Ali and Ayad said that they thought the United States should put pressure on the Israelis to stop the violence and that the only way to resolve the violence was a withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the territories and a separate state of Palestine.
Ayydad said he wanted the Jewish State to remain in existence but he feared that a peaceful solution is not possible.
Moshe Oppenheimer, an Israeli doctoral student said he thought that Israel should
pull out of the occupied territories but that he was not convinced Israel's withdrawal would end the violence.
Dori Dov, an associate professor of computer science from Israel, is also upset by the violence.
"As a human being, I don't like to see people getting hurt." Dov said. "The reality is much more complex than it looks on the TV screens."
"Personally, I am willing to give up most of the territories for the sake of peace," Dov said. "Any resolution that guarantees that Israel won't be destroyed would be satisfactory."
But Dov doesn't think the Palestinians will negotiate for anything less than a Palestinian state that includes all of Israel.
Dov said the U.S. should try to act as a catalyst in bringing the two parties together, as President Carter did at Camp David with Israel and Egypt.
"Unless the PLO abandons its ways of terror, I don't think Israel can ever negotiate with them," Dov said.
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