Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel matched Egypt shout for shout, threat for threat. The Egyptian move to take over Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
...Bystander. In accordance with the vague diplomatic "assumptions" by which the U.N. had tried to paper over the Israeli withdrawal from Egypt and Gaza, the U.N. Emergency Force early last week drew up plans to run the Gaza Strip for a long "interim period." But one morning a mob of 300 Palestinian Arabs, shouting "Long Live Nasser" and waving slick-sloganed placards that could hardly have been printed in Gaza, began battering in the doors of the UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear...
General Mohammed Hassan Abdel Latif as civil governor of Gaza...
Next day, as Nasser's "Voice of the Arabs" broadcast "Arab Victory!" to the refugee camp and café radios of the Middle East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli...
...Israelis raged. But as with his Suez grab, Nasser had looked to the letter of the law. The fact was that Hammarskjold had always insisted that both sides must comply with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement, and Nasser had only exercised his right under that agreement to administer Gaza (although he justifies his exclusion of Israeli shipping from the Suez Canal on the grounds that there is in fact no armistice and he is still entitled to exercise a belligerent's rights...