Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the men of the U.N.Security Council listened gravely as Egypt demanded satisfaction for the "brutal aggression" in Israel's attack on Gaza, in which 38 Egyptians were killed. Israel's Abba Eban retorted that his country was prepared to bind itself to "an assurance that if no hostile act is carried out by Egypt against Israel, then no hostile act of any kind will be carried out by Israel against Egypt...
...explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...
...Raiders. The Israeli band, an estimated 200, burst across the border in three columns. One drove swiftly to the diesel pumping station, which supplies a major part of Gaza's water, and blew it up. While the center column attacked Captain Sadek's men, the third slipped along the railway track, fell upon the Egyptian barracks from the rear, and blew its steel-and-concrete buildings into twisted ruins. In the railway station, the marauders found two civilians. They shot them dead...
Egyptian headquarters dispatched-reinforcements. Two miles south of Gaza, the Israelis lay in ambush, waiting. As a truck carrying 36 soldiers approached, they hurled a bomb. Blinded, the driver swerved off the road. The hidden Israelis opened a withering fire on the truck's open back, threw hand grenades at the soldiers who tried to scramble out. Twenty-two were killed; no one escaped unwounded...
...Arab refugees in the Gaza strip erupted in fury. In Gaza, rioters cursed the U.S., the U.N. and their Egyptian rulers, who keep them from going back home to Palestine. They stoned U.N. headquarters, burned U.N. vehicles, pulled down a U.N. flag. Crowds charged the U.N. relief-agency supply depots outside Khan Yunis, set fire to storehouses holding enough food and clothing to supply 50,000 refugees for one month. Said the Egyptian governor sadly: "These people were fed for six years by the United Nations, doing no work themselves. They got fed up with their lives...