Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 668, 20 December 1990

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 668 of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 20 December 1990, features the following topics: 1. 75 million dollars are the losses in the tourism sector in the Occupied Territories as a result of the Gulf crisis. 2. The evacuation of eastern Yatta, demolition of homes in ash-Shuyukh, and notices of demolition in Gaza and Nablus. 3. The burial of the Dean of Palestinian Literature, Ishaq Musa al-Husseini. 4. Shooting an employee in Nablus municipality. 5. Member of the Israeli Knesset, Nafaʿ, sent a letter to the Israeli Defense Minister requesting an end to the attacks on the Gaza Strip. 6. Bassam ash-Shakʿa returns home after four months of treatment abroad. 7. The Jewish Agency calls for the dismissal of Palestinian workers. 8. Palestinian detainees in seven prisons call for a hunger strike. 9. The double-edged Israeli sanctions: the Israeli political views contradict the applied measures. 10. News from Hebron, Ramallah, Gaza, and Nablus. Hebron news included: student protests due to the early school hours, fining prisoners' wives due to long visits, uprooting trees, thefts. News from Ramallah reported: penalties against workers from Silwad, replacing ID cards with green cards in Kobar and other villages. News from Gaza included: five women suffered abortion due to tear gas grenades, demolishing two abandoned homes, mass arrests, UNRWA condemns the closure of a chest disease hospital, Israel calls for converting two schools into stores, the release of two boys in Gaza, a travel ban for a citizen, lifting curfew for one day in the Beach Palestinian Refugee Camp. News from Nablus reported 100 merchants' identity cards withheld until taxes are paid; the drought leads to agricultural and winter clothing lines losses. 11. The 34th performance of a play entitled "Al-Qamiṣ al-Masruq (The Stolen Shirt)". 12. "Al-Zaytouna" newsletter ... the bulletin of the Birzeit University Workers Union. 13. An article on the effects of water retention on Gazans. 14. The Israeli Occupation Authorities impose new obstacles before the International Relief Agency. 15. A curfew on the village of Ein Yabrud. 16. A campaign inciting racism against Arab workers and writing racist slogans on the properties of Israeli employers in case they employ Arabs. 17. The Israeli police deport hundreds of Gazan workers from their workplaces inside the Green Line.