NEWS
April 15, 1989 | From Associated Press
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said Friday he rejects trading land for peace despite an earlier government statement that Israel is willing to discuss any option with the Palestinians. "I don't accept it. It is not necessary. It is not relevant," he told reporters upon his return to Israel from the United States. Shamir, 73, described his 10-day U.S. visit as a success and added: "There is an understanding between the U.S. and Israel about our four-point peace initiative." Shamir met last week with President Bush, who supported Shamir's idea for elections in the occupied territories but said the United States could not accept permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
NEWS
February 26, 1994 | MICHAEL PARKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Riots broke out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, leaving at least a dozen people dead, as Palestinians protested the dawn massacre by a Jewish settler of 48 Muslims as they prayed in a mosque in Hebron, south of Jerusalem. More than 300 people were wounded throughout the day, scores during the massacre at the mosque and the rest in clashes that followed there, in other West Bank towns, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem's Old City, according to figures compiled from hospital reports.
NEWS
May 6, 1989 | NICK B. WILLIAMS Jr., Times Staff Writer
Hashemi Rafsanjani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Friday called on Palestinians to kill Americans and other Westerners to avenge their dead in the 17-month uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The call provoked an immediate reaction from Washington, where the Administration issued a worldwide alert to American diplomatic and military installations, warning of a possible renewal of terrorist attacks on U.S. targets. In an inflammatory declaration, Rafsanjani said that "the people of Palestine . . . must avenge the blood (of the reported 461 Palestinian deaths in the occupied territories)
WORLD
November 22, 2009 | Reuters
Israeli planes carried out airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip today, injuring seven people, Palestinian medical workers said. An Israeli army spokesman said the strikes had targeted two factories in central and northern Gaza used to make weapons and a smuggling tunnel under the border with Egypt. The spokesman said the airstrikes were in response to a rocket fired from Gaza Saturday. The rocket landed near the city of Sderot, causing no injuries or damage, he said.
WORLD
June 2, 2010 | By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
Egypt's decision Tuesday to open its border with the Gaza Strip after Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla highlights the difficult position Cairo faces in its uncomfortable relationship with the coastal enclave. The government of President Hosni Mubarak had closed the border for all but a few days each month in an effort to weaken the militant group Hamas, which controls the strip. Much of the Arab world assails that policy as capitulation to U.S. and Israeli interest at the expense of Gaza's 1.5 million long-suffering residents.
NEWS
September 16, 1988 | Associated Press
The army clamped curfews today on 180,000 Arabs living in Gaza Strip refugee camps to prevent violence after activists called a general strike Saturday to mark the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Lebanon. Indefinite curfews were imposed on the refugee camps Bureij, Jabaliya, Nusseirat, Khan Yunis and Shati to prevent clashes during the anniversary. Four West Bank villages also were under curfew.