Word: jericho
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...Hamas, making hundreds of arrests, sharing intelligence as never before and even conducting joint operations against the group. Israeli authorities had always doubted that Yasser Arafat, now the head of the Palestinian Authority that governs the self-rule enclaves in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, was really willing to suppress the militants, but his actions this year have tended to resolve those doubts...
That may sound like a strange observation at a time when Arafat looks poised to win an expansion of his authority. For the past year the Palestinians have enjoyed limited self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho. Now negotiators are scrambling to meet this week's deadline for an accord that would detail a timetable for Palestinian elections as well as a redeployment of the Israeli army in the West Bank. The original deadline for the new agreement was July 1, but that slipped to July 25 and may slip again. The killing last...
...govern the Gaza Strip and Jericho, Arafat established the Palestinian Authority, patched together from previously exiled bureaucrats in the P.L.O. and from the organization's ranks of underground activists in the occupied territories. Israel has been stingy about relinquishing real power to Arafat-strictly controlling who and what go in and out of the self-rule zones-but on its own terms, the Authority, with its 18 ministers, 22,000 civil servants and 18,500 security personnel, has performed far less well than had been hoped, as Authority officials themselves acknowledge. "How can we convince people...
...there have been modestly refurbished. Palestinian TV has been broadcasting in the Gaza Strip since last year, and experimental programs began in the West Bank last month. In joint ventures with private investors, the Housing Ministry has put up 4,000 apartments in the Gaza Strip. The hospital in Jericho has been renovated...
...daily life," says Nabil Abu Muaileq, a civil engineer in Gaza City, "not just see big leaders on TV talking about it." Hisham Saleh, a butcher in the West Bank city of el-Bireh, pauses from his work and says, "Judging from what's happened in Gaza and Jericho, I expect no improvement in our lives when the Palestinian Authority comes here...