Word: gaza
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After word of the secret agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. reached the sun-seared slums of the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians streamed out of the teeming Shati refugee camp. They hung their red, black, white and green national flag on an impromptu stage and danced to the music of a small folk band. Suddenly a column of 200 toughs from the hard-line Islamic organization Hamas waded into the celebration, swinging chains and clubs. The melee wrecked the stage, the chairs, even the Palestinian flag, and injured at least 15 people...
...halfheartedly, the new Declaration of Principles provides the only ladder available to climb out of a status quo both sides have been finding more and more intolerable. The plan comes in two parts: first, a framework for interim Palestinian self-rule on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and second, the agreement, still being negotiated, on mutual recognition and an end to the warfare between Israel and the P.L.O...
...obvious as the week progressed, and the recognition talks bore no immediate fruit. Both sides share an urgent desire to reach such an agreement, yet translating that into precise language is proving frustratingly difficult. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres insisted that the deal to give self-rule to the Gaza Strip and Jericho would be implemented even without the mutual-recognition pact, but formal, reciprocal acknowledgment of legitimacy is crucial to finding a broad, permanent settlement...
...Declaration of Principles indicate that they are firmly intended to lead to some final political settlement. The document has been painstakingly drafted, covering -- at least in outline -- the most sensitive concerns of both sides. It provides, first of all, for ! Israeli withdrawal from the 140-sq.-mi. Gaza Strip, with its 770,000 Palestinians, and from Jericho, an ancient, somnolent Jordan Valley town of about 20,000, a thin sliver of the 1 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank...
...will be able to bring his Fatah group and most Arab leaders on board, but the secular rejectionists will continue to undermine him as they can. The more serious threat to his agreement looms inside the occupied territories. He is about to take charge of the 30-mile-long Gaza Strip, which contains 44% of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation, most of them packed into poverty- stricken refugee camps dominated by violent street gangs and, increasingly, by the Islamic fundamentalists of Hamas...