Word: rafah
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...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...
...CAMPDAVID "framework for peace" of September 1978 ended the stalemate of intractable conflict. Israel surrendered the Sinai, including the Alma oil fields it had developed which would have provided economic security for a country faced with hostility on all sides. By handing back Sharm el-Sheikh and the Rafah salient, Israel also relinquished two key military assets. So fervent was the desire for peace, however, even the hero Dayan (then the foreign minister) assented to total withdrawal when he realized that Egypt would not countenance settlements such as Yamit in the Sinai...