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...Gaza the refugees in the camps have been granted a privilege denied them all through the two decades they lived under Egyptian rule: the right to leave the camps by day and roam freely among the rest of Gaza's populace. Significantly, Gaza road signs are being lettered in Hebrew as well as the existing Arabic, and all five major Israeli banks have opened branches in the strip. On Sept. 1, some 100,000 Gaza schoolchildren will enroll in schools administered by Israel. Used as Nasserite indoctrination centers in the past, the schools will be supplied with some...
...right of free passage not only through the Straits of Tiran but also through the locks of Suez. The Israelis undoubtedly will seek either official recognition from the Arab states or de facto recognition in the form of peace treaties before there are any major retreats from Sinai, Gaza, the Syrian Heights, and the West Bank of the Jordan. Because of her military victories the real initiative remains with Israel: she will decide whether to play humble or hard...
...June 5 the Israelis moved into the Gaza Strip (20 miles long by 5 miles wide) with the same classic pincer tactics that the Germans had used so effectively against the Russians in the Second World War. With the Palestinian Liberation Army effectively cut off from Egyptian reen-forcements, the Israelis were able to capture Gaza City before the morning of the 6th. About three quarters of the PLA is composed of Palestinian refugees who live in incredibly compact refugee camps around Gaza City. With a little work by the Egyptians, many of the 215,000 refuges could have been...
Walking through the streets of Gaza City, I could still hear occasional small arms firing a few blocks away; periodic explosions indicated Israeli efforts to dislodge snipers. Most local residents felt that the Israeli soldiers had been "proper" in their treatment of Gaza citizens--more "proper" than they had been in '56 when houses had been searched one by one and citizens shot in the streets when they refused to line up for Israeli inspections. "Nothing like that has happened yet," a Gaza lawyer said with a distinct lack of optimism. Everywhere building showed some signs of the past conflict...
Athlit is a British-built prison camp which was used to house "illegal immigrants" before the Israelis had won their independence. Today the cam holds some 3000 prisoners from Gaza, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The 200 wounded prisoners seemed to be receiving whatever aid was available from both Israeli and Egyptian surgeons. Five of the Israeli doctors had just come from Boston where they were being trained--one of them admitted that he was not accustomed to working under such "make-shift" conditions. Even the Egyptians with multiple wounds and covered with sun blisters had been well treated beyond their...