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Article: Battle at Joseph's Tomb symbolizes discord in Mideast.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 2, 1996
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NABLUS, West Bank _ Last Thursday morning, as violence engulfed the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinian protesters congregated at the Askar Vocational School in Nablus.
They streamed through this dusty hillside neighborhood of stone and concrete-block homes toward Joseph's Tomb, a symbol for Palestinians of Israel's occupation and a holy site for Jews.
A day earlier, Jewish seminarians had evacuated their school at the tomb as tensions rose. But their protectors, a small squad of Israeli soldiers, had remained. They watched nervously from high concrete walls as the Arab crowd closed in.
Scores of Palestinian police tried to ...