Palestinian students observe minute of silence for US attack victims

Agence France Presse
September 13, 2001

A million Paletinian elementary and secondary students observed a minute of silence for the victims of the horrific terrorist attacks in the United States at 11:00 am (0800 GMT) on Thursday, the Palestinian education ministry said.

"All the Palestinian students in the Gaza Stip, the West Bank and in (the annexed part of east) Jerusalem observed a minute of silence in memory of the American victims," of the attacks in New York and Washington, a spokesman for the ministry, Abdelhakim Abu Jamus, told AFP. On Wednesday, the Palestinian education minister had called for a period of silence to be observed.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has called Tuesday's attacks in the United States a "crime against humanity" and offered to help Washington to find those responsible.