Volume 38, December, 1992 International, Page 39224
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Dec 1992 - Mass deportation of Palestinians by Israel
The unprecedented mass deportation by Israel of more than 400 Palestinians to Lebanon in December cast an air of deep pessimism over the future of the faltering Middle East peace talks. The Israeli Labour government's resort to harsh collective punishment tactics reflected its anxiety over a recent increase in guerrilla activities by Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). Increasing support for Hamas in the “occupied territories", and especially in its heartlands in the squalid refugee camps of the Gaza Strip, also posed a serious threat to the mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which had opposed Hamas demands to withdraw from the peace talks and embrace its more militant approach.
On Dec. 10 the intifada entered its sixth year.
In an ambush in the Gaza Strip on Dec. 7, members of Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, ambushed and shot dead three Israeli reservists on patrolthe highest ...

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