Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reinforce each other's stubbornness and influence, especially in times of tension. Consider the interaction between Baghdad and Jerusalem. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud government is hoping that Iraq's conquest of Kuwait will make it easier for Israel to retain possession of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...team to investigate alleged Israeli abuses of Palestinian human rights in the occupied territories, a chance for Arafat to plead his case at the General Assembly in New York. What they have got is nothing, and it was the U.S. that vetoed U.N. inspection of the West Bank and Gaza...
Jerusalem, however, appears to be well locked in already. Shamir's | government came to power formally committed to "strengthen, broaden and develop" Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Its platform also insists that Arabs living in East Jerusalem will not be allowed to vote in the elections in the occupied territories that Shamir has proposed...
Some students are not so fortunate. Palestinian students of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have not been able to complete work toward their college degrees for the past two years. Since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation in December 1987, Israeli authorities have periodically closed Palestinian colleges and universities, as well as primary and secondary schools...
...year-old Israeli did just that last week, when he emptied three magazines from a Galil assault rifle into a crowd of unarmed Arab workers near Tel Aviv, killing seven and wounding eleven. The Israeli army promptly imposed curfews on most of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip and called for calm. But outraged Palestinians responded with strikes and stones, demanding revenge. By nightfall, another seven Arabs had been killed and at least 700 wounded in one of the bloodiest ) days of the 29-month-old uprising...