Word: gaza
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P.L.O. delegates temporarily broke off talks with Israel, complaining that an Israeli offer of troop redeployment in the Gaza Strip, under the parties' peace agreement, was inadequate. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres broadly hinted that there would be another breakthrough in the region, as reports circulated that he had met secretly with Jordan's King Hussein...
...ascension has ignited speculation that his right- wing stance could turn the city into a flashpoint between Arabs and Jews as both grope toward some kind of accommodation. The peace negotiations have already hit their first snag over just how far Israeli troops will withdraw from Jericho and the Gaza Strip while still protecting Jewish settlements...
...historic declaration of principles between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization took center stage at Lehman Hall last night, as Herbert Kelmann, Cabot professor of social ethics, spoke of his recent trip to the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...Palestine Liberation Army, the military wing of the P.L.O. Under the terms of the peace agreement signed by Israel and the P.L.O., Captain Abdel-Kader is one of hundreds of Palestinian soldiers training in Jordan and Egypt for police duty in soon-to- be-autonomous Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Lectures on courtroom law and fingerprinting may seem banal for men who until last month dreamed of military victory against Israel, but Abdel-Kader is ebullient. "Going to Palestine," he says, "is more exciting than jumping out of a plane for the first time...
...topple President Hosni Mubarak has killed 200 people in Egypt over the past two years; in Algeria, the government most immediately threatened by fundamentalists, the toll is at least 1,200. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the biggest danger to the infant peace process in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, is a special case. Its first aim is the destruction of Israel; after achieving that, Hamas would establish a Muslim state on the wreckage as a precursor to a greater pan-Islamic union...