Word: negeb
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Still other Arab contingents were on the move. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war. Palestine's native Arabs were panicky, almost leaderless...
...other side, Israel should remove troops from the demilitarized zone of El Auja which it occupied in the fall of 1955. Although Israel has expressed unwillingness to vacate this triangular piece of land in the Negeb, this action violates the 1949 armistice and Hammarskjold will not ask further Egyptian concessions until Israel observes this agreement...
CAIRO, March 21--U.N. Secretary Dag Hammerskjold is taking the line that Israel will have to withdraw from a little triangle of land in the Negeb Desert to establish legal right to send ships through the Suez Canal...
...connection between the little triangle in the Negeb, the so-called El Auja demilitarized zone, and Israel's rights in the Suez Canal, is highly important to the legal-minded Hammarskjold, the informants said...
They've got to learn the tough way - the way of youth groups with their three-day marches into Negeb and the way of pre-military training courses - what it means to be an Israeli...