ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, December 29, 1996              TAG: 9612310055
SECTION: HORIZON                  PAGE: 1    EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: JERUSALEM 
SOURCE: TEXT AND PHOTOS BY GREG MARINOVICH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WAR WOUNDS SIGNS OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT ARE NEVER FAR AWAY

In the 100 years of conflict between Israelis and Arabs, each war, massacre and street battle has left a scar on the land and the people of the Holy Land.

In the Six Day War of 1967, concrete ``dragon teeth'' tank traps were laid in the desert near the road linking Jerusalem to the West Bank town of Jericho.

Trenches lined with corrugated tin still run across hill tops, remnants of defensive works from which Israeli troops drove out Jordan's army and won control of the West Bank.

Tank training exercises, carried out several times a year in the desert, leave rough tracks to compete with trails used by Bedouin shepherds who drive their herds of sheep and mark the earth as their own.

Refugee camps crowded with Palestinians, often sitting alongside Jewish settlements in the West Bank, proved fertile ground for the 1987-93 uprising against Israeli occupation that was known as the ``intefadeh'' in Arabic.

Fences to prevent Palestinian youths from stoning Israeli cars have stood along roads passing the camps since the late 1980s.

After suicide car bomb attacks and drive-by shootings, concrete blocks were built to encircle Israeli army camps and Jewish settlements. Plastic screens shield Jewish children from prying eyes as they play in the schoolyards of settlements.

In Hebron, where Jews and Palestinians live in a state of constant tension and friction, Israelis carry automatic rifles. Palestinian police, meanwhile, use wooden replicas of rifles to train for duty in Hebron once Israeli troops withdraw from most of the city.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:   A Bedouin child (right) plays between tank traps at 
          Nebi Musa. The Israelis erected the traps after capturing the Judean
          desert from the Jordanians in the Six Day War of 1967.
          2. A barbed-wire fence (above) encloses an Israeli camp outside 
          Jerusalem.  Military camps dot the West Bank to ensure that Israelis
          can live in settlements on land Palestinians claim is theirs.
          3. Palestinians avoid a Jewish settler with a prayer shawl and an 
          M-16 rifle as he walks to prayers at the Tomb of the Patriachs in 
          Hebron.
          4. Jewish children (top) add a mesh-wire section to an existing 
          security fence at Beit El settlement near the Palestinian town of 
          Ramallah.
          5. Concrete blocks (above) line the road at an army base alongside 
          the Beit El  settlement. The blocks were built to thwart car 
          bombings and drive-by  shootings.
          6. A vintage howitzer  in the Judean desert is pockmarked with 
          bullet and shrapnel holes from years of being targeted during 
          training by Israeli troops. Nomadic Bedouin tribes use the area to 
          graze their herds in the autumn.
          7. Jewish seminary students (left) sing and dance in Hebron after 
          prayers at the Tomb of the Patriarch.
          8. Palestinian trainee police officers (above) drill with wooden 
          copies of AK-47 assault rifles in Jericho. The men are training for 
          duty once Israeli troops  withdraw from Hebron.