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...where Israel held Palestinian guerrillas captured during the 1982 invasion. Like the original, Ansar 3, deep in the Negev Desert, is something of a prisoner-of-war camp, this time for veterans of the intifadeh (uprising), the sticks-and-stones insurrection against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, a rebellion that began last December and still sputters on. Most of the 2,483 men and boys detained at the Negev camp are in effect political prisoners, held without charge, trial or sentence. They make up half of the nearly 5,000 Palestinians jailed in connection with the intifadeh...
...number of detainees may keep swelling. Late last week Palestinian leaders called a three-day strike in the occupied territories that shut down virtually all business activity in the West Bank and Gaza. A young Arab was killed by Israeli gunfire and seven others were injured, as authorities broke up a series of West Bank demonstrations. Days earlier, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had held a clandestine meeting with four Arab leaders from the Gaza Strip as part of his campaign to develop a dialogue with a budding local leadership. The idea, he said, was to "get a sense of what...
Shultz met with the Syrian leader a day after bluntly telling Israel its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and "frustration" of Palestinian civil rights were a "dead-end street...
...public statement, Shultz told Israel, "The continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the frustation of Palestinian rights is a dead-end street." He added: "The belief that this can continue is an illusion...
...negotiations would be aimed at self-rule for 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, but not a separate state. In a second stage, Israel and the Arabs would try to find an overall settlement to their conflict...