Word: gaza
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Keeping flying sparks to a minimum, Palestinian and Israeli representatives faced off at the Law School last night in a discussion of the past months' riots in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem...
...said recent events in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip might lead to "a necessary re-thinking of the whole frame of Israeli-Palestinian relations," but that the conservative Likud government in power has not shown signs of making any such shift...
...settlers, the uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a test of their will to survive and rule. Yet the very presence of the settlers symbolizes a basic national dilemma. For years this small but fervent group -- representing only 2% of the country's total Jewish population -- has exercised an outsize influence on Israeli politics. Even many Israelis who question the settlers' tactics agree with them that the barren hilltops of ancient Judea and Samaria belong to Israel and should be kept forever...
...Ehud Barak also said more than 200 Israelis had been injured, most of them lightly, since Arab riots began December 8 in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. He said 53 Palestinians had been killed, but the United Nations puts the number...
...through his car windshield. Fellow settlers responded by rampaging through Anabta while it was under curfew, smashing windows and wrecking cars before Israeli soldiers ordered them away. In the town of Tulkarm, rumors of further settlers' invasions the next day sparked violent protests that left one Palestinian dead. In Gaza, another died of his wounds, bringing the death toll to 43. Defense Minister Rabin angrily called the settlers a "burden" on hard-pressed security forces. But clashes continued throughout the territories, from remote villages in the north of the West Bank to the cities and camps of Gaza. Reopened only...