Sentence examples for palestinians squeezed from inspiring English sources

The attack on Yarmouk camp, home to 150,000 Palestinians squeezed into less than one square mile, underscored the ferocity of fighting a month into a Syrian offensive to beat back the insurgents in the Syrian capital.

It must be out of religious fanaticism, or else a twisted urge to make life hell for the 1.3m Palestinians squeezed into the rest of the Gaza strip".Look beyond the ideology," urges Gideon Aran, a sociologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Fatah's yes-men will then agree to the US-Israeli plan for the West Bank, which recognizes Israel's retention of its useful parts, and leaves millions of Palestinians squeezed into Israeli-policed tribal enclaves, or Bantustans.

Now the Palestinians feel squeezed between both sides.

Administration officials say they are concerned that such a plan could lead to a de facto Palestinian state in a shrunken form on perhaps 50percentt of the West Bank, with as much as 90percentt of the Palestinians living in the area squeezed into it.

But then along came 60 Minutes, which revealed to millions of American viewers (it was the sixth highest rated show last week) that, in fact, their counterparts are Palestinian Christians who are being squeezed out by the Israeli authorities and especially by the whole settlement enterprise, which is gobbling up their land, homes, and ability to travel from one town to another.

Mahmoud Abbas said in a recent interview that he was simply waiting for the Obama administration to squeeze Palestinian demands out of the Israelis.

After we napped we went back to explore further, stopping at a cafe owned by a Palestinian for tall glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice.

He said checkpoints barred anyone from entering the town, squeezed between the capital and the Danoun Palestinian refugee camp 12 miles south of Damascus.

Israel has allowed the Palestinians of East Jerusalem to remain, but it has hemmed them in, squeezed them, left them in no doubt the city is no longer theirs.

At the end of November he squeezed in a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories.