Issue 5697 of Asha’b Newspaper, 11 March 1990

Five-page Issue 5697 of Asha’b Newspaper, published on 11 March 1990, addresses several topics, including: Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided and placed the village of Beit Furik under curfew and arrested 50 Palestinians. Demonstrations, clashes, and stone-throwing across many neighbourhoods in al-Quds (Jerusalem); Cairo International Fair XXIII came to an open; Arab ministers of health discussed Palestine’s accession to the World Health Organization; Arab Lawyers’ Commission denounced the attack on Omar abu Zaid’s law office; IOF set up a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to Bethlehem; Student sit-in at the Ministry of Education directorate in Nablus to protest the rejection of their demands to remove specific courses from the General Secondary Education Certificate (Tawjihi) curricula; Israeli occupation authorities forced shop owners in the city of Ramallah to close their doors; Information revealed that Israel stood behind the explosion of the missile factory in Iraq; Anonymous association threatened to execute a Swiss hostage in Lebanon; Israeli military tribunals pronounced several verdicts against Palestinians on security-related grounds; Iraq urged the United States of America to end its presence across the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.