Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty-mile-an-hour gales shredded tents from Dan to Beersheba, tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...
...Middle East during June and July, and made an intensive study of the Arab refugee question in Lebanon, Jordan and the Gaza strip. The thing is appalling . . . The Arab league does nothing for the Arab refugee except in one place, the Arab Development Project, near the Dead Sea . . . These states refuse to meet with Israelis to consider a solution of the refugee problem within the framework of the general peace settlement...