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	Beit Hanoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beit Hanoun (Arabic: بيت حانون‎) is a town with a population of 35,000 which is administered by the Palestinian Authority like the rest of the Gaza Strip.
		This town is notable for the Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident where 19 Palestinians were killed from IDF shells and for its use as a base from which Hamas has fired Qassam rockets into the northern Negev towns like Sderot, as well as the Gush Katif settlements.
		The women had gathered outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun after an appeal by the local radio for women to come and act as human shields to help Palestinian fighters flee an Israeli siege on the mosque where they were hiding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beit_Hanoun (803 words)

	Beit Jala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beit Jala (Arabic: بيت جالا;, allegedly from Aramaic 'grass carpet') is a small town in Palestine.
		Beit Jala, like Bethlehem is home to educational facilities from different religious denominations, including a Russian Orthodox school founded in 1870.
		The Beit Jala Skyline is made up by six churches, of which Virgin Mary is the oldest and St. Nicholas the most important (both are Orthodox), and by two mosques.
	www.wikimoz.org /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/be/beit_jala.html (237 words)

	Beit Lahia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beit Lahia (Arabic: بيت لاهية‎) is a town under Palestinian Authority of about 40,000 people in the northern Gaza Strip.
		The Israeli settlements of Nisanit, Elei Sinai, and Dogeit that were in close proximity to Beit Lahia were evacuated during August 2005.
		On January 4 2005 seven civilian residents of Beit Lahia, including six members of the same family, were killed when an IDF tank shell hit the agricultural area where they were working.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beit_Lahia (357 words)

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		Beit Jala, 6 May 2001 analyzes the first entry of IDF forces into the town of Beit Jala, Bethlehem District.
		Beit Jala, 6 May 2001 June 2001 Researched and written by Yehezkel Lein Fieldwork by Raslan Mahagna and Suha Ziyad Translated by Zvi Shulman Introduction This report investigates an incident that occurred in Beit Jala on the morning of 6 May 2001.
		Beit Rima is home to an extensive terrorism infrastructure, and many terrorists acted from within the village, among them the perpetrators of the bombing attack on the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and the killers of Minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
	www.btselem.org /Download/200112_Excessive_Force_Eng.doc (21672 words)

	Inside Beit Jala - Daoud Kuttab - English Articles
		Beit Jala is a special town for me. I went to the Hope School at the top of the hill there, and a number of my relatives and in-laws still live in this predominantly Christian town, west of Bethlehem.
		Many of the original citizens of Beit Jala have emigrated to Chile and other Latin American countries and the town is relatively quiet.
		The town of Beit Jala has become the center of attention during the past few weeks, as a number of gunmen have been firing weapons - from the outskirts of the town - towards the Gilo settlement, built entirely on Palestinian lands taken over by Israel in the 1967 war.
	www.daoudkuttab.com /?item=inside-beit-jala (733 words)

	lpsbietjala
		Beit Jala is a small town that lies near Bethlehem where Jesus Christ was born.
		Beit Jala was considered as a guesthouse that welcomed so many people to live in it.
		Beit Jala was one of the tens of towns and villages that were influenced by the new situation, many of its people left their town for America, south and east parts, who still live their.
	www.lpj.org /lpsbietjala.htm (1121 words)

	Beit Jala
		Unterstützung der Sozialstation durch Verkauf von Olivenholzschnitzereien aus Beit Jala.
		Eine Gruppe von 9 Mitarbeitern aus der Gemeinde in Beit Jala macht eine Europareise.
		Hiam Abu Dayyeh, damals Leiterin der Sozialstation in Beit Jala, ist drei Wochen in der Auferstehungsgemeinde zu Gast und nimmt an der Gemeindefreizeit teil.
	www.auferstehungsgemeinde.de /beit_jala.htm (525 words)

	POICA-The Segregation Wall: A skyline in Beit Jala
		The town of Beit Jala is located to the west of Bethlehem city and to the southwest Jerusalem district borders.
		In late February 2004, the Segregation Wall in Beit Jala was commenced when the Israeli Army started to rig, the 10 meters (33 feet) high concrete partitions along the northeastern parts of Beit Jala borders.
		During the olive harvest season (October-November 2003), the Israeli army denied access to Farmers from Beit Jala to utilize their lands and thus thousands of tons of olive trees crops were not harvested and resulted in a considerable financial loss to Farmers and putrefy of the crops.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=357 (634 words)

	Kirke i Beit Jala besat - Folkekirkens Nødhjælp
		Kirke i Beit Jala besat - Folkekirkens Nødhjælp
		Også Beit Jalas lutherske kirke — Reformationskirken - og kirkens børnehjem blev besat.
		Biskop Younan gør det helt klart, at der aldrig nogensinde er blevet skudt fra kirkebygningerne i Beit Jala, og kræver hærens øjeblikkelige tilbagetrækning fra kirken såvel som fra Beit Jala.
	www.pcfisk.dk /sider_paa_hjemmesiden/faa_mere_materiale/pressemeddelelser/kirke_i_beit_jala_besat (246 words)

	Beit Jala, In the Crossfire
		TEXT: Beit Jala nestles on the top of a hill with a commanding view of the valley and the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the opposite side.
		The residents of Beit Jala are caught in the middle.
		A passerby in Beit Jala says Palestinians who fire at the Israeli tanks across the valley are just moving targets, driving along the road, stopping and shooting and moving on.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/11/war-001110-meisr1.htm (645 words)

	POICA-Beit Jala and the Israeli Methodic House Destruction Policy !
		The city is bordered by Sharfat and Beit Safafa from the north, Al Khader village from the south, Bethlehem City from the east and Battir village from the west.
		During the last thirty nine years, Beit Jala was not safe from the Israeli aggressions, two settlements have been constructed on the lands of the city; they are 'Gilo' established in 1971 and 'Har Gilo' established in 1972.
		The area targeted in the demolition order in Beit Jala falls within the intended buffer zone, therefore it is believed that creating a buffer zone was the direct cause behind the demolition order.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=858 (632 words)

	Worldandnation: Israeli tanks move in
		Israeli officials said they would remain as long as necessary to stop the Palestinian gunfire repeatedly directed from Beit Jala across a little valley toward Gilo, a Jewish neighborhood built on land captured in 1967 on the southern outskirts of the Israeli capital.
		Israel's invasion of Beit Jala was fraught with peril for both sides.
		About two-thirds of Beit Jala's 12,500 Palestinian residents are Christians -- the town is just 2 miles from Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, considered the birthplace of Jesus -- and few have been involved in the Palestinian uprising that has raged since Sept. 29.
	www.sptimes.com /News/082901/Worldandnation/Israeli_tanks_move_in.shtml (1186 words)

	Gilo and Beit Jala - CAABU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The owners of the land on which Gilo is built come from Beit Jala and Beit Safafa.
		The clashes with the Palestinians of Beit Jala should be seen in the context of Palestinian villagers fighting the people who have forcibly dispossessed them.
		The reason both sides live "cheek by jowl" is that Gilo was built to restrict the expansion of Beit Jala, to hem it in and to form a concrete barrier between Jerusalem and the Bethlehem district.
	www.caabu.org /press/letters/gilo_beitjala.html (146 words)

	In Communion » A Visit to Beit Jala
		Beit Jala, with its population of 12,350, stands on the eastern slopes of Ras Jala, which rises 920 meters above sea level, one of the highest mountains in the Judean Hills.
		Beit Jala is also one of the main Palestinian centers of Christianity.
		Beit Jala is also one of the Palestinian places most damaged by Israeli firepower since the current intifada began in September 2000, just after Sharon’s infamous visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
	incommunion.org /articles/essays/a-visit-to-beit-jala (3124 words)

	Autonomy shaken in West Bank \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Palestinian autonomy over Beit Jala and other parts of the West Bank, as well as over most of the Gaza Strip, was a keystone of the peace process of the 1990s - the partial fulfillment of the Palestinians' decades-old demand to be free of Israeli occupation.
		Beit Jala has since become a symbol of what has gone wrong over the past year: Palestinian gunmen have used it as a base from which to fire on the nearby Israeli settlement of Gilo.
		Degaulle Hodali, the director of Beit Jala's public health service and its sometime acting mayor, spent Monday night on the floor of one of his two homes in the town, huddling with his wife and son against the cacophony of shelling and gunfire.
	www.csmonitor.com /2001/0829/p1s2-wome.html (1089 words)

	Writers misportray Forthofer's purpose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gilo is built on lands, in effect, stolen from the residents of Beit Jala.
		As far as we could determine, shooting from Beit Jala is by outsiders, not by residents.
		In contrast, Israeli fire at Beit Jala is indiscriminate and, when in response to Palestinian gunfire, always an escalation in caliber.
	www.ccmep.org /ccmep/letter081601.html (309 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, AL
		Beit Jala (Arabic:, possibly from Aramaic 'grass carpet') is a small town in the Palestinian territories.
		Beit Jala has a hospital and three societies for the disabled: Bethlehem Arab Society, Lifegate Rehabilitation, a German-Palestinian rehabilitation project, and House Jemima, a Dutch-founded home and daycare-center for children with mental restrictions.
		The Beit Jala skyline is made up by six churches, of which Virgin Mary is the oldest and St. Nicholas the most important, where it is believed that Saint Nicholas spent four years of his life visiting the Holy Land (both are Orthodox), and by two mosques.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Beit_Jala (322 words)

	Beit Jala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		de:Beit Jala Beit Jala (Arabic: &1576;&1610;&1578; &1580;&1575;&1604;&1575;, allegedly from Aramaic pile of stones) is a small town in Palestine.
		It is located about 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at about 825m altitude.
		Beit Jala is famous for its olive wood artifacts.
	beit-jala.borgfind.com (255 words)

	Beit Jala - an eyewitness account (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At around 4:00 pm some of the armed members of the PFLP started their attack from Beit Jala on the IDF bases in the neighboring settlement of Gilo, which is built on Beit Jala’s land which was confiscated after the war of 1967 and turned into a part of the claimed united capital of Jerusalem.
		From there we had a good view of Beit Jala and the Settlement of Gilo, and with the TV reporters in Beit Jala we had all the information of what was going on.
		When daylight came, we had different reports from people in Beit Jala, and from media reporters who had the chance to go into Beit Jala, and conclusion was that the IDF Tanks pulled back from the Municipality Square to the area near the Lutheran church and the mosque in the center of Beit Jala.
	www.elca.org /globalmission/story/jerusalem19.html (2575 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Israeli troops leave Beit Jala
		Beit Jala residents gathered in the streets to celebrate the Israeli pull-out, firing guns into the air and cheering, but the Israelis warned that their troops were ready to roll back in immediately if sniper attacks resumed.
		The BBC Jersualem correspondent, Simon Ingram, says the Israeli withdrawal may have eased the sense of impending disaster in Beit Jala, but the sense of anger and frustration among Palestinians in general is far from spent.
		Criticising Israel's decision to send its forces into Beit Jala, the US said there was "a fundamental issue here, and that's trying to reverse agreements and understandings that have been made in the past".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1516161.stm (667 words)

	"Beit Jala" My home Town\|Gifts From The Holy Land
		pproximately two kilometers west of Bethlehem is Beit Jala, a town set among olive groves and vineyards with stunning stonemasonry and a spectacular view of Jerusalem.
		One of the most important sights in Beit Jala is The Catholic Church "St Mary Catholic Church" Over 350 years old the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, established in 1925 and named for the patron Saint of Beit Jala.
		The area around Beit Jala has been known for centuries for its distinguished carvers of olive wood and mother-of-pearl.
	giftsfromholyland.com /link.jsp?id=571 (358 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Standing proud
		Its occupation of parts of Beit Jala did not force Palestinian gunmen to stop firing at the Israeli settlement of Gilo across the valley, the declared object of the invasion.
		In earlier incidents of shooting at Gilo from Beit Jala, some residents appealed to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to stop the fighters so as not to attract damage to their houses or suffer civilian deaths.
		The boys of Beit Jala trade in casings, grenade pins and sharp bits of shrapnel as nonchalantly as children elsewhere exchange photos of football players or marbles.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/550/re2.htm (1156 words)

	Beit Jala Fighting Delays Plans For Israeli Withdrawal - 2001-08-29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fierce battles are continuing to rage between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Beit Jala.
		Palestinians living in Beit Jala huddled in their homes as the clashes escalated.
		There was also heavy fighting in Beit Jala earlier Wednesday and in a nearby refugee camp.
	voanews.com /english/archive/2001-08/a-2001-08-29-18-Beit.cfm?... (395 words)

	Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: Apartheid Wall strangles Beit Jala: Heritage and landscape destroyed
		The destruction of Beit Jala land started in late December 2005 when bulldozers started uprooting to prepare the Wall’s path and secure the expansion of the Har Gilo settlement.
		The town council of Beit Jala sends an urgent appeal calling for immediate action to protest and confront the Occupation forces and their bulldozers.
		When the Wall is completed, Beit Jala will have lost access to two-thirds of its land, leaving the city with only 4500 dunums from its 14,500 dunums.
	www.stopthewall.org /latestnews/1212.shtml (456 words)

	Israeli Military attack into Beit Jala - follow up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The sign by the gate of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Beit Jala, West Bank, yesterday afternoon, August 28, was badly damaged.
		It is also the principle that is important to uphold regarding the town of Beit Jala itself which is now under Israeli military occupation and, for that matter, regarding all of the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
		We are also deeply concerned about the possibilities for the children to continue their schooling as long as the town of Beit Jala is divided into two by the incursion of the Israeli army.
	www.elca.org /globalmission/story/jerusalem17.html (1450 words)

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