Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...
...fluid boundary separate Israel and the neighboring Arab states. Hardly a night passes without bullets flying across that border, and last week the two hostile camps come to the verge of full-scale war when Israelis and Egyptians fought a hit-and-run battle in the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. The immediate danger of a new Arab-Israeli war seems to have passed for the moment, primarily because the Arabs are not yet ready to fight and the Western powers are still pledged to maintain the status quo in the area. But as the immediate threat of war recedes after...
...Soviet bloc is out of the question, but entrance into present Middle Eastern defense arrangements is apparently also impossible as long as relations with the Arab states remain what they are. And the Israelis have lost much of the good-will of world opinion because of incidents like the Gaza affair...
...when the fighting ended in Arab defeat, they had no place-neither in victorious Israel (which feared them as fifth columnists and turned over their lands and houses to Jewish immigrants) nor with their Arab hosts, already short of water for their own people. From Gaza to Syria, they became dwellers-on-the-dole, in 61 tent, mud-hut and cave colonies leaning against the flimsy Israel border...
Egypt pulled back its best division from Gaza on the Israeli border, where it might be cut off, and sent soldiers to establish roadblocks on Cairo-to-Suez highways. Egyptian staff officers pored over studies of the 1951-52 fighting to make sure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes. The government restricted sales of supplies to the British garrison (Tommies feared for their three-bottles-a-day quota of Stella beer...