1. For the first time since Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza in May, shop shutters were sealed this weekend and many Palestinians feared leaving their homes. 2. People whispered prayers and Psalms, lighting memorial candles under death notices posted on shop shutters. 3. The color turquoise dominates the renovated street, splashed on freshly painted shop shutters and their spanking new metal signs and awnings. 4. But members of the ethnic Chinese minority kept their shop shutters down for fear of more unrest. 5. Some houses in the area cracked and shop shutters were blown off. 6. There were no reports of violence in Aceh on Thursday, but ethnic Chinese kept their shop shutters down for fear of unrest. 7. Almost every shop shutter is downed and scarred by shrapnel. 8. Bullet marks were seen on shop shutters and electric poles on the road, which was littered stones and bricks thrown by activists. 9. Pulgam residents downed shop shutters and shouted slogans in the streets, blaming the pro-Indian Moslem militants for the attack, the witnesses added. |