5. A group of students from a Jewish religious school in oc- 5. A group of students from a Jewish religious school in occupied Arab Jerusalem took over nine rooms of an Arab house in the city on 23 August, claiming that the rooms had previously belonged to Jews. The operation took place with the full co- operation of the Israeli police, which did not intervene to restrain the attackers and provided them with the necessary protection. 6. On 30 August "unidentified persons" attacked Arab land planted with trees in the village of Sarrah (Nablus district) and set fire to the trees. This caused the destruction of hundreds ofdunums of land planted with fruit trees and olive trees. 7. On 2 September Israeli army bulldozers laid a new road linking the settlement of Alfe Menasheh with the main road from Qalqilya to Nablus. The road passes through land owned by Arab citizens. The Israeli bulldoter work caused dozens of fruit trees to be uprooted. 8. Israeli army forces attacked 200 dunums of Arab land in the Sheikh Sa'd area. east of the city of Bethlehem. on 21 September and tore up the boundary markers in preparation for its confiscation. 9. Settlers from the Ma'ale Amos settlement, east of Bethlehem. attacked an Arab citizen's land adjacent to their settlement in a region known as - Sahbah" on 22 September, uprooted some 200 cultivated olive trees and destroyed them. 10. "Unidentified persons" attacked the citrus nursery of an Arab citizen in Qalqilya on 22 September and destroyed 3,000 citrus trees in the nursery, using incendiary chemical substances. II. Israeli bulldozers cleared 120 dunums of land planted with grape vines and fig trees in the al-Zaytun quarter (Gaza Strip) on 22 September. 12. About 400 Jewish settlers took over 18 rooms of a large building in the cotton merchants' bazaar in the Old City of Jerusalem on 21 September. The settlers removed the furniture of Arab occupants from the rooms which they had taken over, changed the locks on the doors, installed electrical wiring and raised Israeli flags over the building. 13. The Israeli Alkern Kyemit company took over an Arab house in the Ras al- Bustan area of the Arab town of Silwan on 21 September, after evicting its Arab occupants. On 29 September the company took over a second Arab house in the same area. The compagny claims that the two Arab houses are its property. IV- ISRAELI VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE ARAB POPULATION Dunng the months of August and September 1987, the Israeli authorities conducted an extensive campaign of arrests in addition to demolishing Arab houses in the various Arab towns and villages. It also placed a large number of Arab citizens under house arrest. 1. Arrests: The Israeli occupation courts passed severe sentences against 134 Arab citizens, with terms ranging from two months to life imprisonment. In addition, they paid fines amounting to $US 13,343.75. 2. House arrests The occupation authorities placed 18 persons under house arrest, of whom 10 had their house arrest orders renewed for the second or third time. 3. Administrative detention: The Israeli authorities placed 24 persons under administrative detention during September. The period of administrative detention varied between three and six months with the possibility of one or more extensions. 4. Demolition of houses: Israeli army forces carried out orders to demolish nine Arab houses in the villages of Tammun, AI-Rawiyah, Sartah, Dayr a-Ghusun. Bethlehem, AI-Yamun and Al-Isawiyyah. They also destroyed one health unit attached to the mosque of Qaraoua Beni Hasan. 5. Curfew: The Israeli military authorities imposed a curfew on four regions: the refugee camps of Balata and Dheisheh, and the villages of Jinsafut and Bal'a in Tulkarm. The period of curfew ranged between 12 hours and one week, 6. Closure of universities: On the orders of the occupation authorities, Hebron University was closed for security reasons, as stated in the decision, for a period of two weeks from 19 September until 3 October 1987. 7. Israeli Army Radio reported a statement by Knesset member Rafael Eitan of the Ha Tehiya Party to the effect that the Israeli security forces should, as part of their effort to combat and eliminate Arab "terrorism", immediately kill any Arab citizen with a revolver, knife or stick found in his possession. He said that he supported Reserve General Rahba'am Zaifi's call to have the Arabs deported from the country as their continued presence created constant security problems. 8. The Israeli newspaper Hadashot reported on 19 August that the "Committee for the Preservation of Security on West Bank Roads", which consists of members of the Kach faction, had requested Minister of Defence Yitzhak Rabin to tear down the wall separating the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee camp from the main Bethlehem-Jerusalem road. This would facilitate attacks on the camp by members and supporters of this Committee. Kahane warned that, if the Committee's request went unanswered, his faction would organize a covert armed Jewish group to accomplish this task and also strive to expel all residents of the Dheisheh camp from the occupied West Bank. 9. In a meeting organized by the Israeli Mafdal Party to discuss 'means of combating terrorism", Rafe Lior, rabbi of the Kiryat Arba settlement, stated that it was naive and foolish for Jews to treat Arabs in the same way as Westerners treat people in a democratic society. He added that the Arabs were many years behind the Jews in cultural terms and that mass punitive measures should be taken against the Arabs. DOCUMENT S/19222 Letter dated 20 October 1987 from the representative of Angola to the President of the Security Council [Original: English] [21 October 1987] I have the honour to forward the attached communications from my Government and request that they be circulated as a document of the Security Council. (Signed) Maria de Jesus FERREIRA Chargi d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Angola to the United Nations ANNEX I Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Angola on the increase in South African aggression The Angolan Ministry of Foreign Relations denounced Thursday the increase in permanent aggression of racist South Africa against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the People's Republic of Angola. In a declaration issued in this respect, the Ministry both alerts international public opinion to the unforeseen consequences that such aggression could bring on and ascribes responsibility for such consequences to the racist regime of Pretoria. Following is the text of the above-mentioned document in its entirety. "Since 1975 the People's Republic of Angola has been a victim of a non-declared war of aggression brought about by the regular forces of racist South Africa, which also uses mercenary forces and bands of paid armed puppets, with the objective of destabilizing politically and economically the Angolan State and bringing about all types of acts of sabotage and destruction of economic targets and the infrastructure which is indispensable to the social and economic development of the country. "The costs of this war of aggression against the sovereign and independent territory of the People's Republic of Angola are estimated at 12 billion dollars, without any promise of compensation whether for a short, medium or long period, over and above South Africa's maintaining occupied a piece of land in the southern part of the Angolan territory, where criminal activities against the Angolan people take place. "Through the course of all these years of constant aggression, the Angolan armed forces [FAPLA], thanks to their preparation, have constantly increased their capacity and combat readiness, facing in this way. with success, the attacks of the racist South Africans and those of its lackeys. "As Comrade President Jose Eduardo dos Santos stated in a speech delivered to the Angolan community in Portugal 'today we are stronger and South Africa won't be able to destroy us'-this being evidenced to the South African racists, which in the course of these years of aggression against the People's Republic of Angola have known bitter defeats in the battlefield at the hands of the Angolan armed forces. "As has been their habit, periodically FAPLA undertook cleanup operations in their principal areas where the UNITA [Unido Nacional para a Independgncia Total de Angola] bandits hide out, with the aim of their total annihilation. It was this way that, during the current year, the FAPLA forces developed a clean-up operation in the area of Kuito-Kuanavale in the province of Kuando-Kubango, with the objective of avoiding bandit criminal action against the population and of guaranteeing a normal life, with security and tranquillity necessary to the population of this area. "In the course of the above-mentioned military action, the Angolan armed forces caused heavy human and material losses to the puppet bands, neutralizing a large part of their forces. Major parts of the UNITA armed bands, facing the impetuous FAPLA forces, withdrew in a disorderly flight from the combat areas, taking refuge to the south of the Lomba River, an area where they already could count on the massive and direct intervention of the army of racist South Africa. "After a brief trip to South Africa, the chief of the armed bands requested that the South Africans, because of their backing, involve themselves directly in the battles against FAPLA, which was immediately accepted. "It was in this way that direct combat against FAPLA began; aiding the bandits was the 'Buffalo Battalion' also known as 'Bat 32', which found itself in the area together with the other four battalions of the racist army, supported by high- calibre reactive artillery and Kasper AML-60 and AML-90 and Rattel armoured vehicles.