The World - News from Oct. 9, 1987

Gaza Strip residents protesting the slayings of four suspected Arab terrorists in a shoot-out with security forces burned tires and threw rocks at Israeli vehicles and army patrols. Five Israeli passengers on a bus to Egypt were injured. No injuries were reported in Gaza City, but residents reached by telephone reported protests there and in nearby U.N.-operated refugee camps and said that all schools and 80% of the businesses were closed. More than 650,000 people, most of them Palestinians, live in the Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East War.