Word: beit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabs insist that the Israeli army is staging planned forays into Arab territory to terrorize and keep the population off balance. One night early last month a party of Israelis crossed into the Arab village of Beit Jala near Bethlehem and blew up three houses, killing three men, two women and two children. The Arabs said they were Jewish soldiers; Israel conceded that the raiders were Jews but said they were marauders. In the past few nights, similar groups killed five Arabs in & about Jerusalem, through which the border runs...