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...assumptions" by which the U.N. had tried to paper over the Israeli withdrawal from Egypt and Gaza, the U.N. Emergency Force early last week drew up plans to run the Gaza Strip for a long "interim period." But one morning a mob of 300 Palestinian Arabs, shouting "Long Live Nasser" and waving slick-sloganed placards that could hardly have been printed in Gaza, began battering in the doors of the UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear-gas grenades and firing warning shots into...
...place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces of the U.N. had fired "at civilian inhabitants," Nasser announced that Egypt would "assume its responsibilities in the strip immediately." He appointed Major...
Next day, as Nasser's "Voice of the Arabs" broadcast "Arab Victory!" to the refugee camp and café radios of the Middle East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli...
...turned out, though Dag Hammarskjold first called Nasser's move "regrettable," and the Israelis raged. But as with his Suez grab, Nasser had looked to the letter of the law. The fact was that Hammarskjold had always insisted that both sides must comply with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement, and Nasser had only exercised his right under that agreement to administer Gaza (although he justifies his exclusion of Israeli shipping from the Suez Canal on the grounds that there is in fact no armistice and he is still entitled to exercise a belligerent's rights...
...this was painful confirmation to those, like Canada's Mike Pearson, who had argued that the U.N. should spell out what it asked of Nasser while there were still levers to use on him, instead of waiting until the U.N. had given him his territory back and cleared his canal. At week's end, going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli...