Word: gaza
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...fugitive Islamist did, however, take phone calls. And that proved his undoing. Last week Ayyash, 29, was killed in a house in Beit Lahiya, in the Gaza Strip, by an explosion from the earpiece of a telephone he was holding. His demise ended one of the most intensive manhunts ever conducted by Israeli security--a search for the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...Palestinians convicted of petty crimes. Israel has freed more than 7,000 prisoners since making peace with the PLO in September 1993. Israel and the PLO will decide the fate of the more than 2,800 that remain in custody during talks on final status of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem scheduled to begin...
...GAZA STRIP: Palestinians are blaming Israelis for the death of Yehiya Ayyash, a Palestinian terrorist known as "The Engineer," who was killed today by explosives concealed in a mobile phone. "Israel is behind this attack. It carried it out through its agents in the area," a spokesman for the radical Islamic group Hamas declared. While not admitting responsibility, Israeli officials didn't mince words. "I think he deserves it," Police Minister Moshe Shala commented. "He injured many innocent people, children, young people, civilians, the elderly." Ayyash has topped the Israeli police most wanted list following a wave of suicide bombings...
...beginning of Western history has occupied these lands, or fought over them, or at least passed through - Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, Crusaders - leaving behind buildings or burial places or artifacts. Which is why there were about 300 active digs this year in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza - an area no bigger than New Jersey. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...series of crucial discoveries suggests that some of the Bible's more ancient tales are also based firmly on real people and events. In 1990, Harvard researchers working in the ancient city of Ashkelon, north of the Gaza Strip, unearthed a small silver-plated bronze calf figurine reminiscent of the huge golden calf mentioned in the Book of Exodus. In 1986, archaeologists found the earliest known text of the Bible, dated to about 600 B.C. It suggests that at least part of the Old Testament was written soon after some of the events it describes. Also in 1986, scholars identified...