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...School, allows her students to choose a subject for a lecture at the 9:30 a.m. assembly. Yesterday's address was about the importance of statistics in science, and the day before was a lesson from the Koran. Today three girls talked to their classmates about a woman in Gaza and her four children, all of whom had been killed when their donkey cart rolled over an Israeli mine near an Israeli settlement in the dunes south of Gaza City. Qawasmeh knew she had to help her 735 elementary and high school students understand. "Nobody is excluded, even a mother...
...GAZA The Faithful Mourner WAFA FRANJI, 40/six children...
...America is to retain its moral clarity in the fight against international terrorism, then it must allow Israel to proceed with its campaign in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. To tie Israel’s hands at this critical juncture will only put the country at risk of falling, which is exactly what the surrounding Arab states and anti-Semites of the world desire: to drive the Jews into...
When last they talked in January 2001, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators crafted a far-reaching solution. A Palestinian state would encompass all of Gaza and up to 96% of the West Bank. To make up for territory annexed to keep many settlements, Israel would swap an equal percentage of land inhabited by Arabs inside Israel. Arafat accepts the idea but rejects anything less than a solid, contiguous border. Sharon's grudging acceptance of an "eventual" Palestine never goes far beyond civil autonomy for Palestinian islets in a sea patrolled by Israeli forces...
...waves of defeated Palestinians fled Israeli territory to find shelter in squalid camps that the years have made permanent. From the ramshackle alleys of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, a camp crammed with 102,000 people, to the 1,800 in tiny Beit Jibrin, nestled inside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, more than 623,000 refugees are stuck in 27 camps across the occupied territories. An additional 612,000 live miserably in 32 camps in three neighboring countries. For generations, they have all been waiting for the right to return--to the homes they lost in Jaffa or Haifa...