PERSIAN GULF WAR
Palestinians return to work
in Israel after 25-day curfew
BETHl.KHKM Occupied West Hank (API Soldiers
rounded up hundreds of suspei ted Palestinian uprising .11 tiv
ists Sunday in the largest sm h sweep In the Israeli military
Meanwhile, about 1,50(1 Palestinians returned to jobs in
Israel as the army permitted Arab workers to leave the 01 i u
pied territories for the first time since the Persian Gulf War
erupted
The army reported it raptured about t il) guerrilla* be
Moved affiliated to the Moslem fundamentalist llamas, or
"Zeal." group in the West Hank and Gaza Among those de
tained were Hamas commanders for the West Hank and Gaza
strip, a military statement said, and a man from (iaz.a (lity sus
pet ted of the stabbing murders of three Israelis in an alumi
num factory in Jaffa in December The arrests "prevented
many attacks." the statement said
A source in the military government of the occupied terri
tories said the army issued about (>,000 permits for workers to
enter Israel, about 5 percent of those who worked in Israel lie
fore the war.
But thousands of laborers did not return, apparently be
cause of transport problems, lack of permits and confusion
over where curfews were lifted.
In Dheishe refugee camp, soldiers fatally shot a 12-year
old Palestinian boy while firing on curfew violators. Israel ra
dio and Arab reports said, and shootings also were reported at
three other Palestinian camps
Palestinians denied reports by army officials that activists
were trying to block Arab workers from going to Israel
Some Palestinians worried that their jobs had been taken
by Israelis or newly arrived Soviet immigrants during the 25
days that they were confined to their homes by a blanket 1 ur
few on the occupied lands.
"I may have no job left." said Ahmed Hassan. JO, a con
struction worker from the West Hank village of Hussan He
said he had held the job for four years
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Journalists briefly held prisoner
IHIAURAN Saudi Arabia (AIM Photogra
pher Wesley llocxe saui hr was spread-eagled,
blindfolded and then detained for to hours bv
Mi’s of tiie .Mainline National Guard who feared
he might he an Iraqi spv
lira \e was turned over to the guard unit after
<1 Saudi i iti/en seized ins i ar keys as fie was pho
tographing tanks moving alongside a main road
in northern Saudi Arabia he said
The tin ear-old combat veteran from New
York, on assignment for /'One magazine was
among a number of journalists temporarily field
prisoner hv the I S military in Operation Desert
Storm
More than 800 journalists in Saudi Arabia are
under strict guidelines requiring them to report
only in Pentagon sanctioned pools, but fewer
than 12S pool spots were made available
With no other officially sanctioned way to
talk to soldiers, reporters and photographers have
gone out on their im n to net .1 [in lure of <1 w nr in
volving more than .1 half-million American
troops
I think freedom of the press .is far ns this
story is com erned is m grave danger." Hm xe
said
1'he t’ S military's Joint Information Hurenu
gave Saudi atithorities a list of journalists de
tamed in the field
1 here was never any order or intent to de
tain embody tail William Mulvey the hu
reau's direr tor said Sundav "The instructions
were that unescorted journalists not on combat
pools were to be sent bar k to Dhahran where the
pools were organized
Mulvey said l S offn crs der ided they were
mistaken in reporting offenders to the Saudi goi
eminent and had asked for the list to be returned
Hut. he said, unesi orted travel remained forbid
den
Despite bombing, Iraqi citizens remain strong
BACHDAD. Iraq (AIM Re
lentless allied bombing raids
have pushed !he city of the
Thousand and One Nights into
the past Horse-drawn carts re
place cars, water is drawn from
the Tigris River, twigs .ire gath
ered for fuel.
The once hustling capital,
with a peacetime population
close to 4 million, is without
elei tru itv Its disc os and night
clufis are shut down, and poo
pie head home before dusk, go
ing to lied early I localise can
dles are costly
After more than three weeks
of allied air raids, residents suf
fer from shortages of food,
drinking water, medicine and
fuel. But they are learning to
I ope with the deprivations and
the almost nightly raids. Some
play dominoes to pass the time,
others are learning to play
chess
Many Iraqis say they are in
favor of ending the war. hut not
at the cost of Iraq's pride Mam
fear that a ft S -imposed settle
men! will make them vulner
aide lu Western domination
"We may din. but we will din
with honor." said Sarmad Mo
hamniwl. a 2t> year-old officer
with thn stain sncurity depart
niont who came to a market
Sunday with his wife to buy
food
Near the market, outside the
1.200 year old al Khadamia
mosque whnrn President Sad
dam Hussein often went before
thn war. a women shouted at
the lop of her voice "We can
fight for 10 years'"
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