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...also a Hamas landscape. The gate to one former settlement, Kfar Darom, is painted with Hamas graffiti proclaiming, "Welcome to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin City," in honor of the group's founder, killed in an Israeli missile attack in February last year. Eight kids wearing green Hamas baseball caps jog out of the biggest settlement, Neveh Dekalim, dragging a looted telephone pole. At the gate of the southernmost settlement, Rafiah Yam, a youth pulls an uprooted banana tree toward his home in neighboring Rafah...
...case no one ventures alone outside this isolated Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, a tiny fortress under constant threat of Palestinian attack. Three of Ophir Cohen's eight children lost limbs in the bus bombing, an incident that shook his commitment to stay in Kfar Darom, a settlement of 51 families. But after living near Tel Aviv for 21 months during the children's rehabilitation, Cohen and his wife Noga brought their family back. "It wasn't easy," says Cohen, watching Yisrael, 8, roll by awkwardly on skates. The boy has a prosthetic leg to replace...
...latest exchanges come on top of two attempted bombings in Jerusalem and a mortar attack on Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom in Gaza. But in the realm of perceptions, no event in recent months carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque compound atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab...
...settlement of Neveh Dekalim is a harrowing 10-min. drive from Kfar Darom. As darkness comes, so does the time of greatest risk, when gunmen can move about with near impunity. Inside this largest of the 15 Gaza settlements, Noam and Leora Koenigsberg's three-year-old son Binyamin knows what darkness means. "Boom, boom," he says...
...Matt Rees. With reporting by Aharon Klein/Kfar Darom...