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	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday, after tearing up roads, flattening strawberry greenhouses and knocking down walls of dozens of houses in what residents said was the most devastating raid in four years of fighting.
		Dozens of houses in Beit Lahiya were badly damaged and no longer safe to live in.
		Beit Lahiya has been raided by the army in the past, but residents said the destruction they found Thursday was far worse than in previous incursions.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=25819 (856 words)

	Israelis push into Gaza - Newsday.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA -- The Israeli military pushed into residential neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least 21 Palestinians.
		At Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, one of the two neighborhoods attacked, Abdel Hadi Al-Atar stood in the shade with relatives, his shirt and trousers soaked in the drying blood of his nephew, Mohammed.
		About 300 yards from where an Israeli tank was perched on a street in Beit Lahiya, two ambulances stood in the early afternoon, awaiting word from their dispatchers that the Israelis would not shoot at them if they collected the injured and dead.
	www.newsday.com /news/nationworld/ny-wogaza0707,0,7656270.story?coll=ny-top-headlines (747 words)

	Israeli army pulls out of northern Gaza after deadly 4-day raid \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops moved out of the northern Gaza Strip yesterday after a four-day operation that left eight Palestinians dead, more than 100 wounded and tens of thousands without electricity or running water.
		At daybreak, tanks drove away from the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun and the outskirts of the sprawling Jebaliya refugee camp, from where Palestinian militants frequently fire rockets at Jewish settlements and Israeli border towns.
		Several public buildings – including the Beit Lahiya police station, the fire department and a rehabilitation center for the handicapped – also were razed, Hammoudeh said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040912/news_1n12mideast.html (395 words)

	Gaza Residents Run out of Space to Bury Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip - Hemmed into their small Gaza town by an Israeli army blockade while their young men exchange fire with soldiers, the people of Beit Lahiya are running out of space to bury
		Normally, Beit Lahiya uses the graveyard at the nearby Jebaliya refugee camp.
		On Sunday, volunteers in Beit Lahiya cleared rocks and weeds to make space for 33 bodies in the town's small cemetery.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/gaza_run_space_residents.htm (562 words)

	Middle East Online
		Two militants killed in Israeli shelling in Beit Lahiya, Palestinian girl shot by Israeli troops in UN school dies.
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Two Palestinian militants were killed Wednesday by Israeli shelling in the town of Beit Lahiya as Israel expanded its massive offensive in northern Gaza, Palestinian medical and security sources said.
		The Operation Days of Penitence had previously been centered on Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp but troops entered Beit Lahiya overnight as part of their efforts to put an end to rocket attacks by militant groups.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=11562 (453 words)

	thewest.com.au : Mother in Gaza suicide bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hospital officials said a 20-year-old male civilian was shot dead by Israeli troops east of the town of Beit Lahiya.
		Israel said troops were operating in suburbs around Beit Lahiya, but denied forces were in densely populated areas.
		Residents said the incursion into Beit Lahiya was one of the biggest since Israel launched its offensive in late June after gunmen, including Hamas members, abducted a soldier in a cross-border raid from Gaza.
	www.thewest.com.au /aapstory.aspx?StoryName=335690 (515 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Day is bloodiest since Israel invaded Gaza
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — Ali Ajrami and his nine children cowered in one room of their farm house in the northern Gaza Strip, trapped as fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants flared into heavy combat.
		Smoke rises after Israeli shells land between Beit Hanoun, background, and Beit Lahiya, foreground, in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday.
		In response, Israeli troops moved into the densely populated towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, where militants often launch rockets.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,640192982,00.html (988 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Health Ministry added that the situation of 14 of the injured, some of them children, was critical and that they were hospitalized at intensive care units in Gaza hospitals.
		Meanwhile, Palestinian sources reported that many residents from the town of Beit Lahiya, and particularly from the al-Atatra neighborhood, where the fighting is centered, have left their homes.
		According to the Palestinians, the town of Beit Lahiya is almost desolated, apart from gunmen in its allies who are exchanging fire with IDF soldiers.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3272399,00.html (442 words)

	WVA News: Israel Presses Onward - - The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town today, after tearing up roads, flattening strawberry greenhouses and knocking down walls in what residents said was the most devastating raid in four years of fighting.
		Palestinian author Omar Khalil Omar, a Beit Lahiya resident, said two houses belonging to his family were damaged, and two cars crushed.
		Beit Lahiya has been raided by the army in the past, but residents said the destruction they found today was far worse than in previous incursions.
	www.oweb.com /inter/story/1016202004_int04.asp (763 words)

	Israeli forces kill 16 in Gaza -DAWN - Top Stories; July 07, 2006
		BEIT LAHIYA (Gaza Strip), July 6: Israeli forces on an offensive in Gaza killed 16 Palestinians in air strikes and clashes with militants on Thursday in the worst violence since the Jewish state quit the region a year ago.
		Beit Lahiya was also the scene of the heaviest ground fighting, where militants from various factions fired anti-tank rockets from narrow alleyways in running battles with Israeli troops who were backed up by tanks and helicopter gunships.
		Beit Lahiya’s streets were largely deserted as frightened residents sheltered indoors.
	www.dawn.com /2006/07/07/top7.htm (317 words)

	Palestine Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The mayor of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip, Dr Muhammad Al-Kafarnah, states that until now the extent of the damages in his city are estimated to be $1 million.
		The areas hit by Israeli Force artillery were Jabalia refugee camp and the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, the At Tuffah neighbourhood and the Ash Shuja'iyya district in eastern Gaza City, and Salah Addin Street in the southern Gaza Strip.
		Israeli Force fired artillery shells in the east of northern Gaza, in the residential areas in the north of Beit Lahiya.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /nueva_web/gaza_crises/Daily_Press_Release.htm (5034 words)

	News: Occupied Palestinian Territory, Gaza death toll from Israel blitz tops 50
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip, Nov 6, 2006 (AFP) - A 17-year-old student was killed in a Gaza air strike on Monday, as Israel pressed an assault against militants that has left 50 Palestinians and one soldier dead in six days.
		Witnesses said the militants who were the presumed target of the air strike escaped unscathed but that the missile exploded near a bus carrying children to school.
		Tanks and bulldozers remained Monday in Beit Hanun, a northern town close to Beit Lahiya, which Israel says has become a launchpad for rocket fire.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6VB9N5?OpenDocument (634 words)

	Israelis and Palestinians Fight Fiercely in Gaza - New York Times
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip, July 6 — Israeli troops and Palestinian militants waged their most intense battles today since Israel re-entered the Gaza Strip last week to secure the release of a captured soldier and stop rocket fire into Israel.
		Heavy fighting erupted in and around Beit Lahiya, especially in the western neighborhoods of Atatrah and Salatin, closer to the sea.
		Also, an Israeli soldier was shot in the head and killed in Beit Lahiya, apparently by a sniper, the military said.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/07/06/world/middleeast/06cnd-mideast.html?ex=1309838400&en=2cd619b6db8d5b9b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1337 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Fear factor
		The stream of victims, largely from the same families, flowed to Kamal Edwan Hospital located in Beit Lahiya outside of Beit Hanoun.
		The Beit Hanoun operation, termed "Autumn Clouds", hit the civilian population harder than previous operations during Israel's nearly five-months-long incursion into Gaza, purportedly to halt the launching of Al-Qassam rockets into Israel and to secure the recovery of an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas.
		Beit Hanoun's agricultural sector sustained US$7 million worth of damage, most devastating to this community of farmers.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/820/re83.htm (1132 words)

	Israeli Forces Inch Into Northern Gaza
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli forces on Thursday took over an area of northern Gaza that used to be home to three Jewish settlements, creating a temporary buffer zone meant to prevent Palestinian militants from firing rockets at Israeli towns and cities.
		The operation, which followed the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, was expanded overnight after militants from the ruling Hamas group fired two homemade rockets at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, which used to be out of their range.
		In nearby Beit Lahiya, Palestinians fired at a car carrying a crew from the Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, wounding two people, said Wael Dahdouh, one of the reporters in the car.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,104300,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl (819 words)

	deseretnews.com \| At least 20 Palestinians, 1 Israeli killed as Israel steps up offensive in Gaza
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades battled Israeli helicopters and tanks Thursday in the bloodiest day since Israel invaded Gaza over a soldier's capture.
		That infuriated Israel, and a senior official said Israeli troops moved into the densely populated towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, where militants often launch rockets.
		Ali Ajrami, a tailor living in a farm house in Beit Lahiya, was trapped with his nine children in one room after Israeli tanks parked in a garden behind his house and special forces took position on the rooftops of neighboring buildings.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,640192726,00.html (1110 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Israeli forces battling Palestinian fighters west of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon killed six militants, according to Palestinian medical officials.
		Tanks moved inside the western part of Beit Lahiya, where they confronted fighters from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and also the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, according to witnesses.
		The army denied that tanks were inside Beit Lahiya and said ground troops were doing most of the fighting.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/07FB22E0-2165-4067-B2D8-8673DD7E8EF5.htm (391 words)

	Friends of Al-Aqsa
		A convoy of Israeli army tanks prepares to enter the northern Gaza Strip next to the wall separating the Palestinian town of Beit Lahiya and the village of Netiv Haasara, July 5, 2006.
		The latest strike on Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon has killed at least 12 Palestinians and injured over forty.
		The Salah Addin Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), claimed to have killed one Israeli soldier in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon and there are unconfirmed reports of another Israeli soldier being injured by a bullet to his head.
	www.aqsa.org.uk /news_detail.aspx?newsid=674 (1108 words)

	SR.com: Israeli troops leave Gaza Strip
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip – Israeli troops moved out of the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday after a four-day operation that left eight Palestinians dead, more than 100 wounded and tens of thousands without electricity or running water.
		Several public buildings – including the Beit Lahiya police station, the fire department and a rehabilitation center for the handicapped – also were razed, the mayor said.
		Thirty-five of the wounded were 16 and younger, most of them with bullet wounds, said Dr. Manar al-Farra, director of the Al Awda Hospital in Beit Lahiya.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=26237 (420 words)

	Picking up the pieces in a shattered Gaza - Newsday.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA -- Every day of his life, Mahmoud Ankar wears a T-shirt or sweatshirt with his name and the telephone number of his parents printed on the front.
		As the fighting shifted from their neighborhood, the people of Beit Lahiya emerged from their bullet-raked homes and began to tell their stories and vent their fury at the Israelis.
		It was a man calling from the southern Khan Younis refugee camp, many miles from Beit Lahiya, which is in the north.
	www.newsday.com /news/nationworld/world/ny-wobeit0709,0,7846183.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines (915 words)

	ABC News: Israeli Shelling Kills 6 Palestinians
		Israeli artillery shelled Beit Lahiya on Monday, killing five Palestinians and wounding at least nine people, hospital officials said.
		Beit Lahiya is often used by Palestinian militants to launch rockets at Israel.
		Before the attacks, Israel asked Palestinian security officials to warn residents of Beit Lahiya to remain indoors during the shelling, a Palestinian security official said.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2229518&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (466 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israel presses offensive in Northern Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday after tearing up roads, flattening greenhouses and knocking down dozens of houses in a devastating two-day raid, part of Israel's expanding invasion of the northern Gaza Strip.
		For the past two weeks, hundreds of armored vehicles have patrolled a five-mile stretch of northern Gaza, including the towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and the Jebaliya refugee camp.
		Beit Lahiya has been raided by the army in the past, but residents said the destruction they encountered this time was far worse than in previous incursions.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-10-14-mideast_x.htm (833 words)

	Israel Steps Up Military Offensive in Gaza Strip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beit Lahiya, Gaza - Israeli forces on an offensive in Gaza killed 16 Palestinians in air strikes and clashes with militants on Thursday in the worst violence since the Jewish state quit the strip a year ago.
		Beit Lahiya was also the scene of the heaviest ground fighting, where gunmen from various factions fired anti-tank rockets from narrow alleyways in running battles with Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships.
		Before night fell, Beit Lahiya's streets were largely deserted as frightened residents sheltered indoors.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/070606U.shtml (777 words)

	At least 15 die in new Gaza raids - World - theage.com.au
		AFP said one Israeli soldier was shot dead in fighting in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, a killing claimed by one of the Palestinian militant groups behind last week's abduction of 19-year-old corporal Gilad Shalit.
		AFP said that, in the worst reported incident today, 11 Palestinians were killed, including two fighters loyal to Hamas, in an Israeli bombardment on Beit Lahiya, one of a series of deadly attacks over the day, medics said.
		Further troops massed around the towns of Beit Hanun and moved into two neighbourhoods of Beit Lahiya in the deepest Israeli ground operation since Shalit was seized 11 days ago.
	www.theage.com.au /news/world/at-least-15-die-in-new-gaza-raids/2006/07/07/1152175752068.html (1117 words)

	Israel kills 50 Palestinians in 6 days - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A 17-year-old Palestinian student has been killed in an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya, part of a massive Israeli military campaign has left 50 Palestinians and one soldier dead in six days in the northern Gaza Strip, medical officials said.
		Mahmud Ashrafi was killed and nine other Palestinians, two of them five-year-olds, were hurt in the Israeli strike near a school in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
		Beit Hanoun remains under siege by Israeli tanks and troops who raided the town a few days ago, and ordered residents to stay indoors.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=12151 (757 words)

	ABC News: 13 Palestinians, 1 Israeli Soldier Killed
		BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip Jul 6, 2006 (AP)— In the bloodiest day since Israel invaded Gaza over a soldier's capture, troops seized empty Jewish settlements Thursday and pushed toward densely populated towns, killing at least 13 Palestinians.
		The Israeli army said one of its soldiers was fatally shot in the head on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, the focus of the fighting Thursday as Israeli forces pushed into northern Gaza.
		A senior government official said Israeli troops would enter the densely populated towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun which militants often use to launch rockets.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2160601&page=1 (427 words)

	ei: Dark clouds over Beit Hanoun
		While I was driving to Kamal Udwan hospital in Beit Lahiya and listening to a local radio station to get the news update, suddenly the Israeli army succeeded in occupying the airwaves for a few minutes.
		Mohamed Al-Kafarnah, a 43-year old father of four children in Beit Hanoun, said, "I was not in Beit Hanoun when the Israeli army entered the town".
		Aysha Gaben, a 45-year old school teacher who lives in Beit Lahiya near Beit Hanoun, said: "We are worried that the Israeli army will expand their incursion and escalate the offensive.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article5964.shtml (1058 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - 23 killed as Israel invades northern Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One Israeli soldier was shot dead in fighting in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, a killing claimed by one of the Palestinian militant groups behind last week's abduction of 19-year-old corporal Gilad Shalit.
		In the worst incident Thursday, 11 Palestinians were killed, including two fighters loyal to Hamas, in an Israeli bombardment on Beit Lahiya, one of a series of deadly attacks over the day, medics said.
		Further troops massed around the towns of Beit Hanun and moved into two neighbourhoods of Beit Lahiya in the deepest Israeli ground operation since Shalit was seized 11 days ago.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=23306 (1188 words)

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