Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message was the same. "Our rights extend beyond the West Bank and Gaza," said the head of the PLO political section...
...being held hostage for 13 months by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Virginie Betille, 6, and her sister Marie-Laure, 7, were freed last week. The French girls, their mother and five members of a Belgian family had been captured while sailing off the coast of Gaza. Abu Nidal charged that the two families were Israeli spies, which they deny. The girls were delivered into French custody in Benghazi, Libya, but the others remained in captivity...
...changing situation in the Middle East had been pushing the U.S. toward a dialogue with the P.L.O. Shultz had repeatedly carried his American peace plan around the region in his own version of shuttle diplomacy last spring. The centerpiece of the plan was an end to Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, creation of an undefined "homeland" for Palestinians, and an international conference at which negotiations to achieve these ends would begin. But each effort ran up against Israeli objections to a conference even before any answer could be found to the question of who should speak...
Meanwhile, the yearlong uprising by the occupants of the West Bank and Gaza had drawn worldwide sympathy for those Arafat called "the children of the stones." The best way to exploit that sentiment and further isolate Israel was for the P.L.O. to move toward a more moderate, reasonable role. Arafat was strongly urged to do so by Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan's King Hussein and, after the cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. For the U.S., which sharply criticized Israel's heavy use of force against the intifadeh, an overly close relationship with...
...second point urged that "occupied Palestinian land" be placed under temporary U.N. supervision, that peacekeeping forces be deployed and that Israeli troops withdraw. He did not say if he was referring to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel...