Word: shuweifat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ahmed is in Shuweifat, a Palestinian stronghold (a neighborhood, really) east of the Beirut airport. Both the Israelis and the Phalangists are encamped near by, not 500 yds. away. It is close to noon. The streets are white, deserted. Overhead two jets, flying side by side, make a quotation mark as they veer. Ahmed enters the office to which he has been summoned. Thinner than in September, he is still boy-faced. He shakes hands with all the soldiers sitting around the room. He wears a camouflage suit, a pair of sneakers and a cap that looks like...
...street, Ahmed points to the left, where the Phalangists are positioned, and to the Israelis on the right. At times he can see the enemy quite clearly. He can see their faces, but it disturbs him to think of them as individuals. Shuweifat is dead still; the apartment houses are still; the alleys like alleys in a painting. Suddenly there is a barrage of gunshots from the Phalangist side, but no one and nothing is hit. The P.L.O. soldiers return the fire. A skinny cat runs for cover. A chicken rapidly crosses the road, answering at least one question. More...
...vacant, except for the carcasses of two scorched jets on the runway. To the left stands Shuweifat, where Ahmed is on patrol. The vantage point is Israeli headquarters, a secondary school beside a music conservatory. Armored vehicles rest in the parking lot. It is here that one must arrange for an escort to the south, to Tyre. The trip is scheduled for Sunday. The Israeli officer is helpful. He laments the war. "The world has not been fair to the Palestinians." He tells of a Palestinian mother, the wife of a P.L.O. officer, who escaped West Beirut with her baby...
...Beirut, the Israelis slowly began to tighten the noose around Palestinian defenses, establishing commanding positions above the city's airport, east of the runways. Backed by Israeli artillery barrages, Christian Phalangist forces on Wednesday captured a Palestinian stronghold on the science campus of the Lebanese University at Shuweifat. Israeli officers denied that their commandos were involved. "The Christians are doing the fighting," explained an Israeli colonel. "We are just looking...
| 1 |