Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is different now is that the P.L.O. has never before been under such pressure to seize the initiative. Hussein's decision and the growing impatience of leaders of the eight-month-old uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to transform their revolt into political gains may finally force Arafat to compromise. Says Edward Said, a prominent Palestinian American who is a professor at Columbia University: "The P.L.O. realizes that this is a historical opportunity that should not be muffed...
...quell the intifadeh, Israeli authorities announced last week that they had deported four more leaders of the revolt to Lebanon and served expulsion orders on 25 others. They also formally outlawed the Palestinian popular committees that help run the uprising in cities and towns throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...taxes. When a mob stoned Israeli cars in the village of Beit Omer a few weeks ago, the authorities retaliated by refusing to issue market permits to 50 local fruit growers; now millions of dollars worth of plums are rotting on the trees. Money is growing scarce, especially in Gaza, as the Israelis impose punitive fines and present confiscatory bills for dwindling services. Merchants in the West Bank say their income has shrunk by 60%. Savings are vanishing. To punish communities where there has been rioting, the Israeli authorities sever telephone lines, cut off electricity, curtail food shipments and restrict...
...streets of Gaza were deserted last week as residents sullenly submitted to a host of new regulations. Outside the Jabalia refugee camp, under a blazing sun, thousands of men stood in a queue snaking between double rows of barbed wire to receive new identity cards. Without them, they cannot work or travel and are subject to arrest. Near the Erez checkpoint on the Israeli border, Gaza drivers lined up every day starting at 3 a.m. for license plates that specifically identify the car owner's camp or town. At Gaza military headquarters, other Palestinians waited for proof-of-tax-payment...
Israel has succeeded in imposing a measure of calm in the Gaza enclave, but it is taking constant vigilance by 11,000 troops and a regimen of curfews, arrests, beatings and harassment to keep the area's towns and refugee camps from erupting anew. When the local council of Al Bureij resigned under orders from intifadeh's leaders, the Israelis placed the refugee camp under 24-hour curfew for two weeks. The army cut power lines and waterlines, and barred the men from working in Israel for one month. Tax raids conducted block by block netted about $90,000. Says...