Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 546, 18 August 1988

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 546 of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 18 August 1988, features the following topics: - The Ansar 3 Prison declared a closed military zone. - A strike on the Jerusalem Day, bloody clashes and a curfew on a million citizens. - The deportation of four citizens and new deportation decisions. - The murder of General Ḍiyaʾa al-Haq remains a mystery. - Iraq attacks Kurdish areas. - The Executive Committee begins a series of meetings in Tunis. - Violent clashes pave the way for the Lebanese presidential elections. Gemayel and the Kataeb Party oppose Frangieh's candidacy. - Colonizers demand the establishment of a "security belt" on roads leading to their colonies. - On his funeral, masses bid farewell to the communist leader Jamal Musa. - An article by Bashir al-Barghuthy entitled "No More Relying on America". - Palestinian officials: We call for an independent state alongside Israel. - Announcing the names of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality candidates in the Israeli Knesset. - Two Israeli pilots were killed, three young women and two civilians were wounded, and one of the injured lost her eyesight due to the fall of two "F-15" planes in Bani Na'im, Hebron. - Fourteen shaheeds in the 35th week of the Intifada. - The people of Azzun refuse to exchange their land for Israeli compensations. - The killing of four Palestinian detainees. - An international campaign to ban the Israeli use of rubber bullets. - The American press: Measures of repression in Gaza to confront people's committees. - Abu ʾIyad's statements create a state of confusion affecting Israeli parties. - Shamir: We will not negotiate with the PLO even if they change the National Pact. - Egyptian workers support the Intifada.