Word: moushref
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...Gaza, began battering in the doors of the UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear-gas grenades and firing warning shots into the air, but not before a young bystander named Mohammed el Moushref fell beside his bicycle with a fatal ricochet-bullet wound in his chest...
That was the story as the UNEF's commander, Canada's Major General E. L. M. Burns, pieced it together later. But that day the inflammatory Cairo press fanned up its own version. "Troops of the UNEF opened fire on Moushref when he emerged from a seething crowd and tried to put the Egyptian flag in place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces...
...East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli border...
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