Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No 581, April 20 1989

The five hundred and eighty-first issue of Attali'ah Newspaper which was published on April 20, 1989. Bashir al-Barghuthy is the issueʾs editor-in-chief, and it was printed in Salah ad-Din Press in al-Quds (Jerusalem). The 12-page issue covers the following: - In a statement by Amnesty International: The Israeli government encourages the killing of Palestinians. - Widespread clashes as dozens are injured. Six areas in the Gaza Strip are under curfew. - The members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation cannot be nominated in the local election. - 30 thousand Palestinian prisoners in military prisons. - Shamir: My plan aims to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. - Egypt contacts Palestinians regarding the elections. - Military forces seal off southern Jordan. Protests reach Al-Karak and the University of Jordan. - King Hussein meets with Bush. Washington urges the King of Jordan to endorse holding elections in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. - The United Nations discuss the bloody events at Nahalin. Arafat meets with De Cuéllar in Geneva. - A wave of public outrage and condemnation of the bloody events at Nahalin. - A record number of shuhadaʾ and injured people during the clashes protesting the events at Nahalin. - The shuhadaʾ of the Intifadaʾs seventy-first week. - The meeting of different cultures whets the creative faculty of artists. - Threats to divide the village of Battir following the partition of Beit Safafa. - South Africa attempts to violate Namibiaʾs independence agreement. - Kurdish opposition fear the mass deportation of Kurds in Northern Iraq. - The Jordanian minister of information describes the Intifada as “sedition”.