| Show a & J&m WORLD The Salt Lake Tribune v6 n ' Vib ' t Sunday November 30 1997 Dozens Hurt as Protesters Cops Battle in Bethlehem THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 37 people one of them a Palestinian police officer were injured by the rubber-coate- d steel pellets fired by Israeli troops Two people including a teen-ag- e boy suffered head wounds The clash took place near a site where an Palestinian boy was fatally shot with a rubber bullet earlier this month The protests occurred as Israel celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1947 United Nations resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine The injury toll was among the heaviest one-da- y casualty counts of the year Such intense street battles have not occurred since March when Israel began building a controversial housing project in east Jerusalem In Nablus a stronghold of the militant Islamic group Hamas about 3000 marchers at University blew up a mockup of an Israeli settlement Several hundred other Palestinians also marched BETHLEHEM West Bank The worst single day n of clashes in months left nearly four dozen people injured Saturday and the Palestinian Cabinet rebuffed Israels proposal for a limit ed troop pullback In the West Bank town of Bethlehem Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli troops fought from noon until dusk with rubber bullets tear gas and stones in the shadow of the Jewish shrine of Rachels tomb Elsewhere in the West Bank thousands of Palestinians staged rallies that mainly were peaceful but featured angry rhetoric and menacing imagery Saturdays clashes in Bethlehem erupted following a march demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel About 300 Palestinians mostly masked young men broke away from the main group of 2000 and began hurling chunks of rock and concrete at the Israeli troops The Israeli soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets Israeli-Palestinia- Iraq Drops Strident Stand On Embargo h wood-and-pap- G E in the cities of Hebron and Ramallah In Ramallah the demonstrators burned a portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Under Netanyahus plan rejected by the Palestinian Cabinet at its meeting Friday Israeli troops would withdraw from 6 percent to 8 percent of the West Bank reports have said The pullback would occur only in several months after the Palestinians made a stronger effort to fight terrorism Even before the Cabinet meeting top Palestinian officials already had signaled dissatisfaction with the proposal The Palestinians have been seeking a far larger Israeli troop pullback and say they will not agree to forgo any of the three withdrawal stages that Israel was to have completed by In a statement carried Saturday by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA Palestinian ministers called the Netanyahu plan a continuation of the Israeli governments attempt to evade the agreement on further redeployment troop-pullbac- k mid-199- 8 El Arafat Seeks UN Recognition Yasser Arafat has 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