Word: faluja
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...halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
...they arrested two U.N. observers, explaining that they had been "found wandering around" near the front without their Jewish liaison officer and had simply been "deposited at the bar in their hotel." When the U.N. requested permission for the Egyptians to send food convoys to troops trapped in the Faluja pocket, the Jews stalled. Said one government official: "They are there as a result of their aggression. If they need supplies, we will be willing to accept their surrender...