Word: jabalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointment of either would be considered bad news by the Palestinian Arabs, who fear an even harsher crackdown against the intifadeh. Aside from favoring more arrests and deportations, reliable sources say, both men will propose to close the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, a hotbed of unrest, and disperse its 60,000 residents throughout the Strip in newly built housing. They would also push for legislation denying Palestinians in the occupied territories the right to appeal to the Israeli High Court of Justice...
...streets of Gaza were deserted last week as residents sullenly submitted to a host of new regulations. Outside the Jabalia refugee camp, under a blazing sun, thousands of men stood in a queue snaking between double rows of barbed wire to receive new identity cards. Without them, they cannot work or travel and are subject to arrest. Near the Erez checkpoint on the Israeli border, Gaza drivers lined up every day starting at 3 a.m. for license plates that specifically identify the car owner's camp or town. At Gaza military headquarters, other Palestinians waited for proof-of-tax-payment...
...Everything is done to break our spirit," says Mutawakel Taha, 30, a journalist from Khalkilya. "We are completely isolated from everyone," says Raji Saalim, 28, who used to live in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. Newspapers are rare at Ansar 3, books -- except the Qur'an -- and radios are unavailable. Few of the prisoners at Ansar 3 have seen any relatives, not even those who are detained in another section of the camp. The army responds that family visits to the prison have been prevented by "activist Palestinians," who intimidate relatives. The families complain about the cost, the long...
Despite the repression, morale in Gaza remains high. In one crowded home in the huge Jabalia camp, Zainab, a widow of 50, and her five children said they were determined to keep up the protest despite the Israeli crackdown. Her son Jawad, 17, has already served several jail terms for his anti-Israeli activities, and is willing to risk more. "Let it be known to the Israelis that we are strong," Jawad told a visitor. "We are capable of confronting them on all fields. We are not going to run away as the Egyptian army did in 1967." Asked what...
...nerves in Am'ari, Jabalia and the other camps and towns of the West Bank and Gaza has been going on since 1967, when Israel seized control of the territories after winning the Six-Day War. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Israeli troops waged a ferocious struggle with the P.L.O., whose Kalashnikov-toting fighters killed scores of soldiers and civilians in the occupied territories. The Israelis eventually wiped out the P.L.O. threat in the West Bank and Gaza, helped in large part by King Hussein's successful 1970 campaign to drive the P.L.O. forces out of Jordan...