GAZA, July 7: Tension heightened further in the West Bank town of Hebron following recovery of defaced pages of a holy book in a school.The headmistress of the girls' school informed the Palestinian authority yesterday morning that she found ``ripped and trampled'' copies of the book lying on the ground.The incident aggravated the already tense situation in the area following the arrest of an Israeli woman last week for reportedly plastering posters on the walls of Arab shops in Hebron insulting religious feelings of a community.The head of the Hebron municipality, Mustafa al-Natsheh blamed the Israeli settlers for the provocative act. Dr Saeb Eraikat, Palestinian Minister for local self-rule said the action demonstrated that the Israeli government wanted to annul the peace pact with the Palestinians and wanted to pursue the Jewish settlement drive in Arab land.More than 3,000 iranians, chanting ``death to Israel'' marched to the UN office in Tehran yesterday protesting the blasphemous posters. On Sunday night seven rockets slammed into northern Israel after a day of fierce fighting between the Israeli army and Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, pro-Israeli militia sources said.In Beirut, the pro-Iranian Hizbollah said it fired Katyusha rockets on Israeli positions in the Jewish state's occupation zone in southern Lebanon, inflicting injuries. The pro-Israeli militia sources said seven rockets landed inside northern Israel.``There were a total of seven rockets fired which landed in northern Israel,'' said a militia source.
