Word: gaza
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...conducted under U.N. auspices between Israel and each of the invading countries (except Iraq, which refused to negotiate with Israel), resulting in armistice agreements that reflected the situation at the end of the fighting. Accordingly, the coastal plain, Galilee and the entire Negev came within Israel's sovereignty. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian administration, and the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem came under Jordanian rule. These were subsequently annexed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which never thought it necessary to establish an independent Palestinian state in the newly acquired territories...
...years after the famous handshake at the White House, four million Palestinians live in the Diaspora, and another two million live under siege in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, or under Israeli military occupation in the rest of the West Bank. Israeli settlements continue to be built on the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem, creating a de facto situation on the ground before any final negotiations take place. Earlier this week, a Palestinian prisoner died at the hands of Israeli interrogators...
Stepping up retaliation following last Sunday's terror bombings, Yasser Arafat ordered PLO security forces todisarm militant Islamic opponentsin Gaza, despite threats that such action couldtrigger a Palestinian civil war. "It's an impossible mission", says TIME Israel reporter Jamil Hamad. "Gaza is overcrowded, the people give terrorists cover, and the PLO police are not qualified to do the job." The mood is so tense, says Hamad, thatPalestinians now complain publiclythat PLO officers are mistreating them and abusing children. One furious Palestinian mother told Hamad today that -- unlike in the days of Israeli control -- many of those arrested are jailed...
...today to retaliate forsuicide bombingsthat killed seven Israelis and an American college student Sunday. Militant Islamic leaders threatened resistance against Arafat's government: "If he (Arafat) practices this behavior, we will defend ourselves by all means," warned Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader. The bombings, near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 40 people. Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at Brandeis University on vacation for Passover, died today of her wounds. Arafat's police chief, meanwhile, said the militant opposition to the Israel-PLO peace accord now amounts to just 150 gunmen who could easily...
Traveling through the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher spoke of a "new burst of energy'' in the flagging peace process. Israel and the Palestinians established a July 1 deadline for reaching agreement on extending Palestinian self-rule, now limited to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. There were strong hints that Israel and Syria would resume talks in Washington. And with Christopher at his side, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak slightly softened Cairo's refusal to vote for an extension of the 25-year-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty unless Israel joins...