Word: gaza
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...blazing Mediterranean sunshine, Yasser Arafat crossed the border from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, dropped to his knees and kissed the sandy soil. As the welcoming crowd cheered and waved black-red-green-and-white flags, he was surrounded by officials and security men from the Palestine Liberation Organization. He and his aides piled into a convoy of cars and trucks carrying armed guards and sped along the main north-south route into Gaza City. Thousands of supporters roared a welcome outside the building where the Israeli army of occupation had its local headquarters until last...
...will have to return to establish a permanent presence in the territories that Israel captured in the 1967 war. He and his colleagues will have to construct a functioning government on the first bits of occupied land handed back for Palestinian self-rule. In the teeming and poverty-ridden Gaza Strip and the tiny West Bank enclave of Jericho, the P.L.O. must prove that it can make a success of governance. If that goes well, Israel has promised to hand over the whole of the occupied West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, to Palestinian administration. But if Arafat and his comrades...
Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization resumed stalled talks about autonomy for the occupied territories, and the PLO's top negotiator hinted that Yasser Arafat is poised for a long-awaited return to Jericho next month. The Israelis, who had wanted to test-run Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, said they were ready to talk about a quick expansion of self-rule to the rest of the West Bank. In turn, Arafat might settle in Jericho in mid-July -- as long as he and other Palestinians are guaranteed "safe passage roads" between the two independent zones...
Ending 27 years of occupation, Israel completed its withdrawal from a self- rule enclave in the Gaza Strip. The pullout "corrects a tremendous mistake," said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. A rump force of Israeli soldiers will remain to protect the 19 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. At week's end, Islamic militants killed two Israeli soldiers at a border checkpoint...
Israel completes its pullback from Jericho and the Gaza Strip...