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The 100-square-kilometers of
he Twilight Zone" is per-
haps the best way of de- the Strip under cultivation by
scribing the Gaza Strip Palestinians (over a third of the
during this extended tran- area) provide incomes for some
sition period when Israel's Civil 12 percent of the local work force
Administration has ceased to op- (significant, given Gaza's more
erate but the Palestinian Au- than 50 percent unemployment
thority has yet to fully take its rate). With the citrus season over,
the task now is to get the more
place.
In some ways, Gaza is still cel- perishable exports — vegetables
ebrating its new freedom with- and flowers — to market safely.
in the same old prison created by But Mr. Rayes has run into
Israel's closure policy. Even on a daunting problems.
"We've filed 1,800 requests
strike day (a holdover from the
intifada still observed by Hamas), with the Israeli authorities to
traffic is heavy, shops and stalls send out truck loads of produce,"
are open, and the cafes and he says, "but only 100 have been
restaurants along the beach are answered to date." Even when re-
doing a record business — espe- quests are approved, Israel de-
cially at night, now that the cur- mands that the cargo be switched
from Gazan to Israeli trucks at
few is history.
Above all, there's little indica- the border of the Autonomy,
tion of the "chaos" that senior Is- which triples the price of trans-
raeli officers predicted last month port to port and planes. On top of
— and, many Palestinians be- that, only trucks from the West
lieve, were secretly hoping for. In- Bank have been permitted to
stead, the atmosphere in Gaza haul Gazan exports to Jordan,
ranges from bustling to business- but no passes whatever have
like, and occasionally even hope- been issued for them.
All of which fuels Palestinian
ful.
But behind the scenes, where suspicions that while agreeing to
the proxies of the incipient Pales- a de jure transfer of power, Israel
tinian Authority are trying to is trying to maintain a kind of re-
keep the wheels of government mote control over key aspects of
turning, an unsettling feeling life in the Autonomy. Jamal Za-
hovers in the air. For in addition
to functioning without a policy-
Issues Palestinians
making executive, departmental
budgets, and even salaries for
view as purely
their staffs (due to foot-dragging
in Tunis), the men holding down political are seen by
the fort in Gaza face a host of ob-
Israel as vital to its
stacles they view as being Israeli-
inspired.
security.
Some buildings, Palestinians
report, were stripped of every-
thing but their paint by the de-
parting Israelis. But inside the kout, a member of the Coordi-
compound that housed Israel's nating Committee on Civil
Civil Administration, and is now Affairs, echoes the realization
the home of its Palestinian suc- that, far from being an accom-
cessor, the office of Mohammed plished fact, the transfer of pow-
Rayes, the director-general of the er will continue to be a grueling
Agriculture Department, is still process of negotiating countless
comfortably appointed, right issues in detail. Last week, for ex-
down to its curtained windows ample, the two sides finally es-
tablished the procedure for
and poster-covered walls.
True, the Israelis carted off Palestinians to travel the "safe-
three of the department's five passage roads" between Gaza to
computers, plus their manuals, Jericho. Still to be discussed is
disks of programs, and electron- the question of free movement
ic "files." But Mr. Rayes contin- from the autonomous areas to the
ues to hope that the disks, at rest of the West Bank, to say
least, will be returned. Mean- nothing of easing the closure that
while, as an agronomist who has keeps tens of thousands of work-
been working for the department ers out of Israel — and the Gazan
since 1963 and prides himself on economy in ruins.
Jerusalem groups these prob-
being a professional, his main
concern is to keep on exporting lems under the rubric of "secu-
Gaza's produce, lest it rot in pack- rity." But other obstacles appear,
in Palestinian eyes, to be purely
ing houses or in the field.
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