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...deadline approached, the Israelis pleaded for more time, but the commandos refused, saying that they had no authorization to extend the limit. At 5:27, General Gur gave the order to open fire on the school. The firefight lasted only twelve minutes, but as Gur said later, "they were the longest minutes of my life." Israeli soldiers under a barrage of fire managed to reach the explosives and neutralize them. One of the three Palestinians was immediately killed by sniper fire. Another was wounded, but was still able to toss grenades and fire his automatic weapon pointblank at the screaming...
...Gur said later that he could see the girl students being shot one by one. Israeli officers said that they found ten girls dead, each with a bullet in the neck...
...Links. Actually, the biggest aspidistra had been sent because the talks were bogging down. The men charged with plotting preliminary military disengagement at Geneva-Israeli General Mordechai Gur and General Taha El Magdoub of Egypt-had done well enough with the "technical models" that they proposed for separating forces in Sinai. The difficulty was that on both sides, the proposed military moves were inextricably connected to political decisions that neither general could make.Thus, after two meetings last week, totaling 3½ hours at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the military talks adjourned and discussions shifted home...
...their colleagues from Jordan, the Soviet Union and the U.S., had opened the first formal Middle East peace talks since 1949. But after the top diplomats went home, it was the turn of the generals to grapple with the technicalities and tactics of disengagement. How successfully Major General Mordechai Gur of Israel and Brigadier General Taha El Mag-doub of Egypt dealt with those details would set the pace of negotiations...
...Gur in Geneva and Dayan in Washington sketched the same Israeli proposal for disengagement. Under it, Israeli forces now spread across Sinai and onto the west bank of the Suez Canal would withdraw in stages to positions around the defensible Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, the Israelis expected Egypt to withdraw its Second and Third armies from Sinai along with armor, artillery and missiles and replace them with only "symbolic police forces." Between the two would be interposed United Nations forces similar to those now attempting to maintain the cease-fire around Suez City on the west bank. Such...