Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottles at security forces and was now repentant. "I want to hear it from you," the judge told the defendant. After a long pause, Kakmeh replied, "I regret what I did. I'll never do it again." His sentence: 45 days in jail and a $193 fine. On the Gaza Strip, the penalties were harsher. Many of those who pleaded guilty were jailed for three months and fined up to $644. Outside a courtroom in Gaza City, an elderly Bedouin, stunned after learning of his young son's high fine, said bitterly, "I will have to beg for that...
...first dozen days of rioting were confined to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Two weeks ago the unrest spilled into East Jerusalem, and last week it spread through several Arab villages and towns in Israel. Some of the worst violence came in the West Bank town of Jenin. After demonstrators hurled as many as 20 fire bombs at border police, the Israelis opened fire, killing two Arabs and wounding seven...
...dampen tempers. In the West Bank, they closed Hebron University, a hot spot of Islamic fundamentalist activity, and several other colleges. A two-day shutdown of nearly 900 Arab schools in the occupied territories was extended through this week. The Jerusalem daily newspaper Al Quds, which circulates widely in Gaza and the West Bank, was banned there for one month after it published a picture of an Israeli soldier carrying a tear-gas launcher and fleeing from a crowd of demonstrators in Gaza. Two refugee camps, Jabalia (pop. 40,000) in Gaza and Dheisheh (pop. 8,000) near Bethlehem, were...
...long run, Israel seems to have little choice but to make peace with its Arab subjects or face being overwhelmed by them. There are 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, plus 740,000 in Israel itself. Their high birth rate means they will outnumber Israel's 3.5 million Jews by the end of the century. "There will be no peace until the Israelis leave our land," said Shahla al Aklik, a Palestinian woman whose son was killed in the West Bank last week. "Even if we lose all our sons, the struggle will continue." That resolve...
Confounding predictions of a neck- and- neck race, the ruling party candidate handily wins a five- year presidential term amid charges of fraud. -- Facing the worst riots in 20 years, the Israeli military comes down hard on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza. -- Reagan' s quest to secure new aid for the contras gets an inadvertent boost from Nicaragua' s Ortega brothers...