The World - News from July 7, 1987

At least 24 people were injured as hundreds of angry Druze villagers attacked police trying to evict them from a northern Israel tent camp erected in a land dispute. Sixteen police officers, two nature reserve officials and six villagers were reported hurt in the clash on Mt. Meron. State radio said the villagers, armed with chains and sticks, also set fire to 20 police vehicles. The Druze, members of an offshoot Muslim sect, contend that the land used to create the reserve was confiscated from the village of Beit Jann by the Israeli government.