Word: rafah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official death toll in the rioting rose to 28 after the army confirmed Sunday that a 65-year-old man from the Gaza Strip city of Rafah died over the weekend of gunshot wounds sustained in protests last month...
...Secretary-General Marrack Goulding received last week in Jerusalem. Goulding, a Briton assigned by the U.N. to investigate conditions in refugee camps, was snubbed by most Israeli officials, then denied access to two camps he tried to visit. When he finally made his way into the Gaza camp at Rafah, demonstrators threw stones at his army escort, and he was accused by Israeli military authorities of provoking a riot...
GAZA CITY, Occupied Gaza Strip--Israeli soldiers fired on knife-wielding. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah yesterday, killing one and wounding three, the army command said...
...Rafah incident, Israel army radio said people armed with knives attacked an army patrol that had tried to force the attackers back with smoke bombs. It said soldiers opened fire because their lives were in danger...
...Eilat, an Egyptian officer politely but firmly explained to the Israeli drivers of 15 vehicles that they could not yet be allowed to go any further. A rubber stamp needed for validating travel documents had not arrived from Cairo, he explained. At the scruffy northern Sinai town of Rafah, which is now divided by the Israeli-Egyptian border fence, matters were also confused. The system that will permit Arab residents to move freely throughout the city was not yet in effect, so the border was temporarily closed...