Word: gaza
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...unresolved status of the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is, by almost universal agreement, the most pressing problem in the Middle East today. On many occasions the leaders of various Arab states have chosen to speak in behalf of the Palestinians. For 15 years the Israeli occupiers of the West Bank and Gaza have based their administration on presumptions concerning Palestinian attitudes. But rarely, in all that time, have the Palestinians had a chance to speak for themselves...
...Israel is creating living martyrs." Bethlehem's Mayor Elias Freij was referring to the four West Bank mayors who have been fired by Israeli authorities over the past two months. But the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip also have their dead martyrs, as last week's events testified all too vividly. Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Arab schoolgirls, one 14 and the other 17, in separate incidents. Their deaths brought to 15 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire since rioting broke out in the occupied territories in March. An additional...
...latest unrest can be traced to a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last November to institute a "civil administration" for the West Bank and Gaza, replacing the purely military government that had prevailed since the occupation began in June 1967. Sharon put a Hebrew University professor of Arabic literature, Menachem Milson, in charge of the new administration. But mayors, intellectuals and student leaders in the West Bank were skeptical, fearing that the civil administration would evolve into a form of "autonomy" that would seemingly meet the requirements of the Camp David agreements but fall far short...
...Arabs' anger erupted in March when Milson fired three mayors, charging them with refusing to cooperate with his administration. Two weeks ago, he dismissed a fourth mayor. The first round of firings led to strikes and demonstrations in the West Bank and even in Gaza, which had previously been relatively dormant. As the reaction began to die down, a shooting rampage by an Israeli soldier at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem stirred up Palestinian resentment against Israeli rule all over again. The soldier, American-born Alan Goodman, has been charged with the murder of an Arab guard...
...Egypt is prepared to pursue the Palestinian autonomy negotiations as outlined in the Camp David accords. Israel favors this course not only because it involves the U.S. as a full partner but be cause the Camp David agreement says nothing explicit about Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza - an omission that is a tribute of sorts to Begin's tough bargaining at Camp David. In a letter to Begin two weeks ago, President Reagan reaffirmed Washington's commitment to achieving "full autonomy" for the Palestinians within a "Self-Governing Authority" in the West Bank and Gaza...