Arab schoolgirls overcome by tear gas November 10 evacuate the building after tear gas shot by Israeli soldiers during a clash with stone-throwing Palestinian youths landed in their school. Palestinians confronted the soldiers during a march protesting Israel's detention of Palestinian woman Itaf Alayan, who is linked to the fundamentalist Islamic Jihad group and who has been on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison for the last three weeks. Palestinians say her condition is very serious.