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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER-PALESTINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Surrounding the area of the settlement are the Palestinian neighborhoods of Dir al-Balah, and what were once the fields, groves and hothouses of a town that was known for its dates and its farmers.
The defense of Kfar Darom residents from Palestinian shooting from surrounding buildings is evident in the fortifications that have been built around it: high guard towers and observation towers, military positions built of armored concrete, a concrete wall behind which several tiled roofs are visible, a barbed-wire fence, an iron gate.
This is the case in the Siafa area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and in the large Muasi region, which stretches along the coast from Dir al-Balah to Rafah.
www.ipc.gov.ps /ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Articles/2004/articles-010.html   (2828 words)

  
 Ha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
At her home in nearby Dir al Balah, her other grandmother is tormented with guilt for having let her daughter-in-law and granddaughter go to visit the parents of Suzanne, her son Mohammed's wife, last week.
For Na'ima Hijo, Iman's grandmother from Dir al Balah, the daily journey to visit her injured 19-year-old daughter-in-law at the hospital in Khan Yunis sometimes takes two hours in each direction due to the IDF checkpoints stuck in the heart of the Gaza Strip.
In the Dir al Balah camp, the narrow alleyway leading to the home of the Intifada's youngest martyr is bedecked with posters and wreaths of flowers already faded by this week's hazy weather.
www.palestinemonitor.org /archives/three_short_months.htm   (2005 words)

  
 30 of 49 Palestinians Killed in August Were Civilians
Iman Marasiv, 12, was injured during an IDF assault in the area of Dir Al-Balah on Aug. 7.
Her son managed to drag her indoors, when a voice in Hebrew called out to him: “Where’s the terrorist you have hidden?” After it emerged who had been wounded, a military ambulance was rushed to the scene, but Abu Zaher died of her injuries.
On Aug. 28, Mohammed Barakeh, a 24-year-old resident of Dir Al-Balah, was throwing stones at soldiers at a checkpoint in the Katif Bloc.
www.ccmep.org /2002_articles/Israel-Palestine/090402_30civilians.htm   (789 words)

  
 WorldTribune.com: Palestinian officers mutiny against Arafat in Gaza
More than 130 security officers stormed a position of the praetorian guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat in Dir Al Balah on May 31 in what they termed was a protest against corruption in PA security forces.
The National Forces officers allege that Al Majaydeh has siphoned off money and supplies meant for PA officers and has refused to command PA forces to battle Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Al Mayadeh to sit or listen to our demands will lead to chaos that we don't want," Maj. Ahmed Abu Subeitan, a spokesman for the mutineers, said.
worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2004/me_palestinians_06_06.html   (458 words)

  
 ZNet | Activism | 30 of 49 Palestinians killed in August were civilians
Iman Marasiv, 12, was injured during an IDF assault in the area of Dir al-Balah on August 7.
On August 2, Fatma Abu Zaher, 85, was sleeping in her courtyard in Wadi a-Salka, a village south of Dir al-Balah.
On August 28, Mohammed Barakeh, a 24-year-old resident of Dir al-Balah, was throwing stones at soldiers at a checkpoint in the Katif Bloc.
www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2281&sectionID=22   (728 words)

  
 מגזין הכיבוש Occupation Magazine
The slogans and calls for soldiers to disobey orders that settlers from Kfar Yam were broadcasting over loudspeakers were audible from the roof of Yihye Bashir`s house in Dir al-Balah.
And occasionally, the loudspeakers were drowned out by the sound of a patrolling tank or armored personnel carrier.
Though the media has reported repeatedly on the deployment of the Palestinian police, no PA policemen were visible at noon yesterday in Dir al-Balah`s western neighborhood.
www.kibush.co.il /show_file.asp?num=7278   (719 words)

  
 CONFLICTO PALESTINO-ISRAELI
In Gaza strip, Palestinian medical sources said that a third Palestinian was martyred and another injured by the occupation forces near the settlement of Kafr Daroum in Dir Al-Balah, south of Gaza City.
Manager of Al-Aqsa martyrs hospital in Dir Al-Balah doctor Ahmad Rabah confirmed that Alaa Ahmad Al-A'rag (21 years old), one of the preventive security individuals, was martyred early in the morning and that another one, namely Mohammad Suleiman Abu Omra was injured.
Rabah referred that, "The martyr Al-A'rag was injured with several shots in his body, while Abu Omra was injured with two shots and as he was in a serious condition, he was carried to the hospital".
www.seprin.com /menu/palestino-israeli-15-04-02b.htm   (1781 words)

  
 ZNet | Activism | The IDF Shuts Away The Sea At Rafah
IDF positions, replete with rifles poking out of watchposts, and the occasional jeep or larger army vehicle which races up and down the road, ensure that nobody trespasses beyond clearly demarcated borders.
Finally, in late June, members of a solidarity group of human rights workers from Italy and France, along with Palestinian peers, managed to work their way up to the sewage grid (while holding signs in English) and create a human shield as municipality workers repaired the damaged pipes.
In June, human rights activists also demonstrated between the IDF roadblock at the entrance to Dir al-Balah and the roadblock at the Gush Katif junction.
www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2113&sectionID=22   (2151 words)

  
 PRC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Sunday at night three residents, including two children, east of Dir Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Ibrahim AL Masdar, head of Al Aqsa Hospital in Dir Al Balah, told the IMEMC that one of hospital’s ambulances managed to fetch the bodies of the three residents after contacting the District Coordination Office (DOC) in order to allow the ambulance crew to approach the military electric fence which separates Gaza from Israel.
Al Masdar identified the three residents as Mohammad Suleiman Abu Adwan, 20, Issa Suleiman Al ‘Omour, 17, and Bassam Hussein Abu Ghraba, 15.
www.prc.org.uk /data/aspx/d4/1894.aspx   (292 words)

  
 Ha'aretz - Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
IDF positions, replete with = rifles=20 poking out of watchposts, and the occasional jeep or larger = army=20 vehicle which races up and down the road, ensure that nobody = trespasses beyond clearly demarcated borders.
Finally, in = late=20 June, members of a solidarity group of human rights workers = from=20 Italy and France, along with Palestinian peers, managed to = work=20 their way up to the sewage grid (while holding signs in = English) and=20 create a human shield as municipality workers repaired the = damaged=20 pipes.
In June, human rights activists also = demonstrated=20 between the IDF roadblock at the entrance to Dir al-Balah = and the=20 roadblock at the Gush Katif junction.
www.pchrgaza.org /Themes/closure/unemployment_hass_haaretz.mht   (2267 words)

  
 The “Disclaimed” (Munkar) H.adîth
Ayyûb ibn Mans.ûr ibn "Alî) and in the notice of "Abd al-Mu’min ibn Sâlim ibn Maymûn.
Al- Dhahabî integrated it into Mîzân al-I"tidâl and expanded upon it, criticizing him at times for citing undeserving entries.
O "Alî, fear Allâh regarding worldly possessions…”; “When an innovator dies, Islâm gains a new victory”; “When I was taken up to the heaven Gibrîl brought me to Sidrat al-Muntahâ and bathed me in light….
www.livingislam.org /n/dmh_e.html   (4353 words)

  
 CNN.com - Clashes and violence reported in Gaza - September 8, 2002
The Israeli tanks and APCs were at Netzarim crossing, halting traffic into and out of Gaza City, in an operation focused on central Gaza, the sources and witnesses said.
In Gaza City, an Israeli military source said, there was a "pinpoint targeted operation," but no reoccupation of settlements was planned.
The tanks left the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom and knocked out electricity in Dir al-Balah, and there was heavy fire, the sources and witnesses said.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/09/08/mideast.violence/index.html   (389 words)

  
 International Middle East Media Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Tuesday at night, undercover united of the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian child, and injured his father and sister while they were standing near their house, east of Al Qarara, close to the border line in the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported that one Palestinian resident died of wounds suffered in an earlier Israeli air strike in Al Maghazi refugee camp, south of Gaza City.
Fourteen residents were injured in an Israeli shelling to Al Shujaeyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city, and in Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
imemc.cauterized.net /content/blogcategory/103/0/12/120   (891 words)

  
 main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Hundreds of school pupils of Dir Al-Balah town and camp, central Gaza Strip, staged a demonstration and marched to Kfar Darom, near Dir Al-Balah.
They threw stones at the IDF on the precinct of the settlement while the IDF soldiers responded with intensive gunfire at the protesters.
Hundreds of Palestinian school children took to streets in their uniform, raising Palestinian flags and photos of the martyr baby.
www.tibetinfor.com.cn /en/news/2001/05/c052032.htm   (269 words)

  
 Israeli army enters Gaza Strip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
They left Beit Lahiya, a small part of the nearby Jebalya refugee camp and Dir al-Balah, a town in central Gaza, several hours after entering.
However, Palestinians said a line of tanks was approaching Dir al-Balah again late Wednesday.
Three Palestinian policemen were killed when Israeli forces destroyed three police positions on the outskirts of Dir al-Balah, across from several Jewish settlements, Palestinian security officials said.
www.bouldernews.com /news/worldnation/14aisra.html   (803 words)

  
 Injured In The Fault Line
The Israel Defense Forces spokesman at the Southern Command, who is very punctilious when he reports on Palestinian shooting in the Gaza Strip, did not report this firing incident that injured Yusuf Bashir, 15, of Dir al-Balah.
About three years ago the Bashir home in eastern Dir al-Balah had already been requisition as an IDF military post.
As reported here ("This Mortal Coil," Week's End, February 13), during the first months following the outbreak of the bloody hostilities the house stood in the path between Israeli and Palestinian gunfire.
www.rense.com /general49/injur.htm   (1307 words)

  
 Racist-Zionist army reoccupies central Gaza Strip - islamicdigest.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The officials said the Israeli army forces started to move toward the town before midnight from several directions and residents woke up a short time later to the buzz of tanks.
Witnesses said the tanks rolled to just outside the Dir al-Balah refugee camp, where about 30,000 Palestinians live and soldiers announced on loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed on the town until further notice.
The Palestinian security officials also said Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles rolled into the eastern parts of both the al- Mughazi and al-Bureij refugee camps, also in the central Gaza Strip.
www.islamicdigest.net /v61/content/view/979/42   (374 words)

  
 Three residents skilled in the Gaza Strip, death toll rises to 123 : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
"The resident, who was identified as Tamer Khammash, 22 years old, who was shot dead east of Dir Al-Balah.
A medical source in Gaza said that one resident was killed in Salah Ed-Deen Street, near Kfar Darom settlement, east of Dir Al-Balah, on Monday morning raising the total number of residents killed on Monday to three, and a total off 123 since the beginning of the military raids since September 30, 2004.
The resident, who was identified as Tamer Khammash, 22 years old, who was shot dead east of Dir Al-Balah, after army claimed that he crossing into a military closed zone, while soldiers were uprooting vast agricultural areas which belongs to the families of Abu Mosbeh and Al-Shawwa.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1704027   (369 words)

  
 AAD[The fence: a path to voluntary transfer]
The residents of the Ma'aniya quarter of Dir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip are entitled to leave and enter their neighborhood four times a day: between 6 and 7:30 A.M., between
In the wake of several suicide bombings around there and shooting incidents near Kfar Darom, the Palestinians were prohibited—as far back as the
990s—from traveling on the section of Saladin Street running from the north to the south of Dir al-Balah.
www.aad-online.org /2004/Englishsite/Englinks/aad8/19/pne1.htm   (932 words)

  
 מגזין הכיבוש Occupation Magazine
He got settled in a hotel and went to the Dir al Balah refugee camp.
All this is relevant to what happened to him this week in Dir al Balah.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade belongs to Fatah, that`s the party of Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chair Mahmoud Abbas].
www.kibush.co.il /show_file.asp?num=8425   (1678 words)

  
 The Prophecy Network - Gunmen take over PA buildings
About 60 gunmen belongings to the Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades raided Saturday afternoon the governor’s building in Dir al-Balah and a nearby building and “took over” the structures, in the Gaza Strip.
In recent months, members of the Fatah’s military wing began arranging jobs for themselves as a reward for their activity during the intifada.
The abductors are believed to be members of a group associated with the al-Aqsa Brigades and likely also acted in a bid to secure jobs.
www.prophecynet.com /showthread.php?t=8680   (338 words)

  
 Israeli Tank-Infantry-Special Forces Units Sweep Through Gaza!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
An IDF force on an operational activity in the area of Dir al-Balah during the night identified a cell of three armed Palestinians endangering the IDF activity.
The town of Beit Hanun, an area under full palestinian control, is a stronghold of the Hamas movement, and many terror attacks were planed and carried out from there, among them the firing of mortor bombs toward communities in the northern Gaza Strip and the Erez industrial area.
Palestinian security officials said three policemen were killed in Dir al-Balah when an Israeli bulldozer destroyed their post.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/626957/posts?page=1   (1862 words)

  
 Guardian | 'We forced them to leave but they can still seal us off and strangle us economically'
Wedged between the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom (population 200) and the Palestinian town of Dir al-Balah (population 200,000), the benefits of Israel's withdrawal from its settlements are clear to Bashir Bashir.
At the edge of the Palestinian town, the family's neighbourhood provided cover for militants attacking Kfar Darom and was the Israeli army's first point of contact in its retaliatory incursions.
The rise of Palestinian militancy has had a damaging effect on Gaza's economy as Israel has restricted the passage of people and goods.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5263134-103552,00.html   (708 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A Resident Dies of Wounds and IOF Continues Arresting in the WB GAZA, Palestine, November 7, 2005 (IPC+Agencies)-Hani Owdeh Abu Sawaween, 30, from Dir Al Balah city, died Monday of his wounds he sustained by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip last September.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health pointed out today that Hani Abu Sawaween 30, died today of wounds he sustained on last September 12 near the former military checkpoint Abu Holi south of Dir Al Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
IOF set up a checkpoint at Al Ras village south of Tulkarem and the checkpoint's soldiers are preventing the passage of cars into the city at the very moment until hours of locking them up and subjecting them to accurate searching process.
www.ipc.gov.ps /ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=11624   (472 words)

  
 Today in Palestine!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
After two Palestinian boys were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire in the West Bank town of Beit Lakia two weeks ago, the army investigated and concluded that, due to the soldiers' overenthusiasm, a routine incident had deteriorated into a series of tragic mishaps that ended in the boys' death.
A Palestinian medical source in Dir al-Balah said that the fighter who was killed earlier on Friday, was identified as Mohammad Ribhi Baraka, 22, from Dir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
Friday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, wounded three residents, and arrested four including one of the wounded residents.
www.theheadlines.org /20-05-05.shtml   (1559 words)

  
 Les nouvelles de Imra (14 fevrier 2002) en anglais
The Division Commander also addressed the shooting and killing of the cell members in Dir- al Balah.
The operation took place in the region of Be't- Lahya, Be't- Hanun, Dir- al Balah and al- Attra.
During the searches in Dir- al Balah the force came to a place where an armed cell ambushed it.
moise.sefarad.org /print.php?id=387   (6667 words)

  
 Dir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It is a command in the DOS operating system; see dir (DOS Command)
In SCUBA diving, DIR commonly denotes the Doing It Right philosophy — see DIR diving.
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www.33beat.com /Dir.html   (233 words)

  
 GOTTA SEE THIS-War Endur.Freedom 8/25/02 Asadabad,Kabul,Tal.cemetery,Shamshatu,Abu Dis,Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In Bagram, US soldiers hunt Al Qaeda who launched rockets near Asadabad.
In Dir al-Balah, Gaza, IDF patrol and demolish 3 terrorists houses
al Qaeda and Taliban detainees who are well- treated at Guantanamo, unlike the
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/738733/posts   (1988 words)

  
 Australian Jewish Democratic Society - Articles from the Israeli Peace Movement
At her home in nearby Dir al Balah, her other grandmother is tormented with
connect Khan Yunis with the Dir al Balah refugee camp.
In the Dir al Balah camp, the narrow alleyway leading to the home of the
www.labyrinth.net.au /~ajds/intifada/levy.htm   (1749 words)

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