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Native Americans
Native Americans Indigenous peoples of the American continent.North AmericaNative North Americans are believed to be descended from Asian peoples who crossed via the Bering Strait or the Aleutian Islands around 20,000 bc or earlier. They may be divided into eight distinct cultural and geographic... Read more |
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Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip gäz´e , (2003 est. pop. 1,330,000) rectangular coastal area, c.140 sq mi (370 sq km), SW Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea adjoining Egypt and Israel, in what was formerly SW Palestine, now officially administered by the Palestinian Authority . People and Economy The Gaza Strip... Read more |
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Intifada
Intifada [Arab.,=uprising, shaking off], the Palestinian uprising during the late 1980s and early 90s in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , areas that had been occupied by Israel since 1967. A vehicular accident that killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Dec., 1987, sparked immediate local... Read more |
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Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Authority (PA) or Palestinian National Authority, interim self-government body responsible for areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Palestinian control. The PA was authorized by the Oslo Accords (1993) and subsequent Palestinian agreements with Israel, and was established... Read more |
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Hamas
Hamas [Arab., = zeal], Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization that was founded in 1987 during the Intifada ; it seeks to establish an Islamic state in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip (the former mandate of ... Read more |
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catchment area
catchment area or drainage basin, area drained by a stream or other body of water. The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage systems. The amount of water reaching the river,... Read more |
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50 DIE AS MID EAST THROWN INTO HELL; Two-year-old girl among the victims as...
...Bank and Gaza Strip, leaving...boiled over into Arab towns...fought a three-hour pitched...Bank and Gaza, Israeli...gunfire. Israeli civilians...At the isolated Gaza settlement...Netzarim, the army sent a helicopter...airlift out Israelis who had ... |
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Moderate Cabinet ministers demand evacuation of tiny Gaza settlement guarded...
...an entire army battalion...protection, after three soldiers...violence and one Israeli commander...promised this area to Israel...killing three and wounding...blowing up three Palestinian...all of the isolated settlements in Gaza _ Netzarim...want and to divide ... |
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Israel Demands Gaza Settlement Evacuation
...inside a small army base contiguous...inside the Gaza Strip, Sunday...2003. Three Israeli soldiers...Bank and Gaza to be a heavy...protection, after three soldiers...promised this area to Israel...the head of Israeli's southern...want and to divide the ... |
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Pull out of enclave, some Israelis urge
...NETZARIM, Gaza Strip -- Moderates...an entire army battalion...protection, after three soldiers...enclave in Gaza would show...promised this area to Israel...killing three -- including...southwest of Gaza City, overlooking...the head of Israeli's southern...want ... |
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Control of West Bank A Rising Hope for PLO
...the grim Gaza Strip that Israel...of and the isolated town of Jericho...1994 - into the West...remain under Israeli army control...nightmare to Israelis who believe...use these areas under Palestinian...editorial. Israeli leaders say...be made in three ... |
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Mideast negotiators OK outline for peace.
...Bank and Gaza Strip and violence...The Israeli army reported...Shebaa Farms area, causing...Miller, an Israeli official...anonymity. But Israeli Foreign Minister...miracle" for Israelis and Palestinians...proposals could divide the Palestinian state into ... |
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