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	Nablus, Holy Land
		Nablus or "The Uncrowned Queen of Palestine" as historians call it, is located 63 km north of Jerusalem between Mt. Gerzim and Mt. Ebal.
		Nablus enjoys a strategic position being at the junction between two ancient commercial roads: one linking the coast to the Jordan valley, the other linking the north to the south of Palestine through the mountains.
		Today Nablus is one of the largest cities in the West Bank aside from Jerusalem, with a population of 120,000 and a principal industrial and commercial center.
	www.atlastours.net /holyland/nablus.html (661 words)

	Nablus, Israel
		Nablus (Shekhem to the Israelis) lies 42km/26mi northeast of Tel Aviv and 60km/37mi north of Jerusalem in the uplands of Samaria.
		In the 16th century Nablus was the center of one of the four Ottoman administrative divisions of Palestine (the other centers being Gaza, Jerusalem and Safed).
		In 1980 the mayor of Nablus, Bassam Sheker, one of the most influential Palestinian politicians in the Israeli-occupied territories, lost both legs in a bomb attack, and in 1986 his successor Zafer el-Musri was murdered.
	www.planetware.com /israel/nablus-isr-wb-nab.htm (402 words)

	ZNet Commentary: In the Home of Mohammad Ramadan
		NABLUS, PALESTINE (December 31, 2002) -- Nablus is a city under siege.
		Curfew is sometimes imposed during the day too, although when the IOF tried last week, in the center of Nablus, it was defied by residents, who resisted bullets, APCs and tanks with stones and firebombs.
		Nablus and its adjoining refugee camps -- including Balata and Askar -- are centres of resistance to the Israeli occupation.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2003-01/07singh.cfm (1805 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Not another day in Nablus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nablus was once the commercial hub of the northern West Bank and pillar of Palestinian nationalism.
		The fundamental cause of this destruction is the occupation, with Israel relentlessly hammering Nablus as the heart of the West Bank Palestinian resistance and "factory" for suicide bombers.
		And were he allowed to come to Nablus his presence would rally most of the Fatah militias behind him and isolate the few who are opposed to him.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/709/re3.htm (1133 words)

	Nablus
		Nablus, known as the site of biblical Shechem, is one of the largest Palestinian cities with a population of more than 50,000 people.
		The modern city of Nablus derived its name from a Roman town that was founded in 72 CE, which was close to the biblical city of Shechem.
		Inside the city of Nablus, at the entrance to the casbah, the traditional city center, there are the remains of an amphitheater built in the 3
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vie/Nablus.html (478 words)

	nablus/shechem
		Nablus, in turn, lies in the northern part of Palestine (the Israeli-occupied "West Bank"), 37 miles north of Jerusalem and 26 miles northeast of Tel Aviv, in the hills of Samaria.
		Left: Nablus, the largest city in Palestine (outside East Jerusalem), situated in the east-west valley between Mount Gerizim (summit visible in bottom of photo) to the south and Mount Ebal to the north.
		In the 1930s: Nablus became an important center for Arab resistance to Jewish immigration to Palestine; in 1936 it was the starting point of a rebellion against the British Mandate.
	www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/palestine/nablus.htm (6392 words)

	Nablus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nāblus is famous for the architecture of its market, the Kasbah in the old city, and also for the Palestinian culinary specialty of knafeh, a pastry dessert drenched in syrup and served in square-cut slices fresh from the oven.
		Nāblus lies in a strategic position at a junction between two ancient commercial roads; one linking the Israeli coast to the Jordan valley, the other linking Nāblus to the Galilee in the north, and the Negev to the south through the mountains.
		Nablus after Five Years of Conflict December 2005 report by OCHA (PDF).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nablus (2339 words)

	Palestine Report - "If Nablus falls, what is left?" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to Nablus governor Mahmoud Aloul, since the start of the campaign on December 15, 14 people have been killed, 165 have been wounded and seven families have been displaced after their homes in the Qaryoun neighborhood were severely damaged by shelling.
		"Nablus is known as a bastion of Palestinian resistance," Maqboul, who is a resident of Nablus, says, and he bitterly denounces the lack of protest from the Arab and international communities.
		In "capturing" Nablus, Israeli forces, say Palestinians, have shown a total disregard for the suffering of ordinary citizens and for the historical and archeological nature of the city.
	www.palestinereport.org /article.php?article=224 (1081 words)

	International Solidarity Movement » Nablus Region
		However, later in the article the tear gas and live bullets used by the IOF are mentioned with no mention of any violence being used...
		Nablus Villagers Face Impediments to Olive Harvest from Israeli Soldiers
		The Israel Defense Forces [sic] are demanding that Palestinian farmers not allow Israeli and foreign sympathizers to escort them during the olive harvest to places where military protection is needed against abusive settlers,...
	www.palsolidarity.org /main/category/nablus (304 words)

	Nablus: The Locus of Palestinian Civil War?
		In an economic conference held in Nablus back in 1997, major differences appeared between the Masris on the one hand and the then PA finance minister, the Muhammad Zuhdi Nashashibi on the other.
		It was here that the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades show the true success of their attacks on Israelis—by enhancing their reputation as the leader of the ‘resistance’ against Israel, they became an efficient tool to protect the terrorist wing of the PLO against the “plots” of the political leadership.
		As far as the Nablus aristocracy is concerned, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades aim to sabotage all attempts by the city’s middle class leadership to lead the city out of the current economic mire.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=507 (903 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| 19 left dead in failed hunt for master bomber
		In a three-week occupation of the biggest Palestinian city the Israeli army has killed 19 people, wrecked dozens of buildings and confined tens of thousands to their homes in a futile search for the leader of "the heart of the terror networks".
		Before Christmas soldiers flooded Nablus and the neighbouring refugee camp of Balata in pursuit of the leaders of al-Aqsa martyrs brigades responsible for organising dozens of suicide bombings.
		The Israeli army commander in Nablus, who declines to be named, said the raid on the city of 180,000 people was prompted by intelligence that three or four suicide bombers were preparing to leave to attack Israelis.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1119104,00.html (843 words)

	International Solidarity Movement » Nablus In The Last Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One in the village of Tel, another on Road 17 (the easiest route between Asira and Nablus) and the last built on land belonging to the village of Salem.
		The construction around Nablus is just another part of the Israeli government’s attempt to expand and legitimize the presence of settlers in the West bank.
		It is true that the big invasions that Nablus (like many other places in Palestine) endured during the beginning of the Intifada are no longer happening.
	www.palsolidarity.org /main/2005/10/16/nablus-in-the-last-month (892 words)

	Nablus Casbah
		The bodies of Palestinians lay in the street and the wounded and dying were cut off from medical care.
		Leaving the church for our next action we walked past an area where a home had been bombed by an F-16 fighter jet and a family of 15 was still in the rubble, dead for sure.
		This morning I heard Israeli soldiers going throughout Nablus yelling at the Palestinians, “Everybody come out of your house and buy bread!” Speculation is the Israelis are trying to make their invasion not look so bad for US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit.
	www.ccmep.org /hotnews2/nablus041202.html (1075 words)

	Palestine Report - Nablus rocked by clash
		The scene is not an unusual one in a Palestinian hospital after four years of the Intifada, but the circumstances of their shooting have rocked Nablus.
		Civil society groups in Nablus have called for a full and public inquiry into the events that led to the two policemen’s shooting and the wounding of a third person.
		Nablus citizens have long complained of the absence of law and order, and people have been calling for a clampdown on armed elements in the city.
	www.palestinereport.org /article.php?article=698 (1427 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israeli troops begin withdrawal from Nablus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		NABLUS, West Bank (AP) Israeli armor withdrew from the large West Bank city of Nablus and left most of Ramallah early Sunday, in a significant scaling back of Israel's 3-week-old military offensive, but remained in the holy town of Bethlehem.
		Israeli forces continued their siege of the Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and of Yasser Arafat's battered headquarters in Ramallah, where the Palestinian leader is confined.
		The withdrawal from Nablus was largely completed before dawn Sunday, and some residents rushed to check their apartments that had been taken over by Israeli soldiers in recent weeks.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/04/20/nablus.htm (1027 words)

	israelinsider: security: Heavy battles continue in Jenin as IDF controls Nablus casbah
		Heavy gun battles between the IDF and armed Palestinian gunmen continued Monday in the Jenin refugee camp and in the casbah marketplace in Nablus.
		During the first four days of fighting in the camp and in Nablus, some 5 tons of explosives were deployed against Israeli troops, Yediot Aharonot reported.
		Earlier Monday morning a Fatah fighter in Nablus told ynet that IDF forces were advancing deep into the casbah.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0235.htm (1059 words)

	CNN.com - Israeli tanks enter Nablus as Sharon plans talks - August 2, 2002
		NABLUS, West Bank (CNN) -- Israel launched a military operation in Palestinian-controlled Nablus early Friday morning, moving into the West Bank city with more than 150 armored vehicles in an action against the Hamas organization.
		In the midst of the incursion into the Casbah, the core of the old city of Nablus, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would meet as soon as next week with the Palestinian Authority's new finance minister, Salam Fayed, and the new Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel al Razek Yehiyeh.
		The Palestine Red Crescent Society said three Palestinians were killed in the fighting overnight -- two in Nablus and one in the village of Salem, near Nablus.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/08/02/mideast (789 words)

	'Jewel of Palestine' Appeared to be a Ghost Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		NABLUS, West Bank -- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) joined other Christian agencies in an emergency relief convoy to the West Bank city of Nablus on April 20.
		Headlines the day before the convoy entered the city read that the Israeli army had withdrawn from Nablus, but no pullback was in evidence.
		The convoy to Nablus waited two hours before being allowed to enter the city and nearly three hours before it could leave.
	www.mcc.org /middleeastcrisis/nablus.html (569 words)

	Press Releases: Occupied Palestinian Territory, OPT: A convoy of hope to Nablus
		The region of Nablus is now surrounded and even further cut off from the rest of the West Bank.
		In coordination with the Governor of Nablus, the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs and Caritas Jerusalem, some 500 very vulnerable families were identified as in urgent need of food aid.
		The aid convoy was accompanied by Palestinian police escort and leading religious leaders in Nablus from the Christian, Muslim and Samaritan communities greeted the convoy and delegation and expressed their thanks to all involved for this expression of solidarity to the people of Nablus.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6S4GFW?OpenDocument (640 words)

	International Middle East Media Center - Three killed in Nablus predawn invasion
		Palestinian medical sources in Nablus reported on Wednesday afternoon that the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli military invasion in the West Bank city of Nablus has risen to three after medical and civil defense teams uncovered a body of an aged man under the rubble of the attacked house.
		Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli troops invaded Nablus, surrounded a house where resistance fighters were hiding, and exchanged fire with them killing two.
		Nablus has been subject to an ongoing military operation that sometimes escalates when the army invades the city to assassinate or arrest resistance operatives.
	www.imemc.org /content/view/18671/1 (696 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Israeli tanks move on Nablus
		Tanks and armoured personnel carriers reoccupied most of Nablus as well as a refugee camp on the edge of the city, only one night after a similar raid on Hebron.
		North of Nablus, a Palestinian man was shot dead by a Jewish settler on Friday morning after he allegedly tried to attack the settlement of Shavei Shomron.
		Palestinian sources said one of those arrested was the Fatah leader in Nablus, Issam Abu Bakr, the Associated Press news agency reported.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2016033.stm (593 words)

	Scoop: Nablus: Urgent Appeal To Help Lift Siege
		Nablus has been under siege for the last 10 days while Balata refugee camp has been under siege for the last 18 consecutive days.
		They took his brother and wife as hostages, paraded the wife in a jeep in the old city and forced to call out to her husband over loud speakers to surrender in return for her freedom.
		Nablus has been split again into two parts near Maha's Gate, which is names after Mrs.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0401/S00010.htm (1462 words)

	Journal in the Holy Land (April '01)
		The area is still home to most of Nablus' 700 Christians (the whole city is about 150,000) - most of the people with whom we talked made it clear that their plight as Christians is intertwined with that of the rest of the city.
		Numbering about 500 (around 300 still in Nablus, and 200ish in a part of Tel Aviv), Samaritans are a branch of Judaism that accepts only the Torah (the first five books), recognize Mt. Gerizim (where they live) as the holiest place in the land, and continue to sacrifice animals on Passover.
		They also have a breathtaking view of Nablus (video - 13 sec.), as it continues to spread up and down through the valley.
	www.saltfilms.net /zababdeh/apr01.html (5882 words)

	Scoop: IOF Onslaught Turns to Nablus
		NABLUS, Palestine -- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) started a wide offensive on the city of Nablus and its suburbs, in which two homes were blown up while troops occupied houses and public buildings there.
		IPC correspondent reported that the IOF invasion began at 11:30 pm last night, when 70 Israeli military jeeps and ten armored personnel carriers invaded the city of Nablus and deployed troops in several parts of the city.
		Yousef Al Jabi, the director of the Nablus fire department, told IPC's that the Israeli soldiers raided the fire department and herded the staff of the department into a very small room.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0405/S00256.htm (556 words)

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