Word: nablus
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...Beit Lid, at the edge of the West Bank in northern Israel, preparing to launch an assault against wanted Palestinian militants. As the elite unit reviewed its plans, Israeli intelligence officials phoned the commanders with an updated mission. A suspected terrorist had been tracked to a residential building in Nablus, the densely populated Palestinian city known to Israelis as the West Bank's capital of terror. In the past year Israeli forces claim to have caught or killed 120 Palestinians with plans to head from Nablus to Israel to carry out a suicide bombing. Dan, 27, the burly commander...
Colonel Knafo Harel, commander of the Samaria Brigade, which controls the Nablus region, says his forces have eliminated all the major Hamas leaders in the area. "They have replacements, but they're much less effective," says Harel, sitting in an army trailer high above Nablus and fielding cell-phone calls about an undercover operation in progress. "Of course, they'd like to conduct 10 bombings a day. But they don't have the power...
...settlements Israel has built throughout the West Bank and Gaza were relieved by the Oslo Accords requirement that they turn over those cities to a Palestinian gendarmerie - having to resume day-to-day patrols, let alone take responsibility for health, education and basic services in the streets of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron could exponentially raise Israel's casualty figures...
...very Hamas leader with whom Abbas had negotiated the "hudna" truce agreement. Israel?s message to Abbas was clear: Either you destroy Hamas, or we will. And Hamas and Islamic Jihad - and surely, also, the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades after three of their men were killed Friday in Nablus - have vowed to take grisly revenge. They, too, have a message for Abbas: Step aside...
...recalls the day Israeli soldiers spotted his white Citroen van on the shoulder of a back road outside the West Bank town of Nablus and, hearing the murmuring behind its closed curtains, concluded they had stumbled on a nest of suicide bombers. At gunpoint, the American exited his vehicle and explained that the six Palestinians with him were a clandestine Christian Bible-study group avoiding the prying eyes of their neighbors. "They are in danger," he told the baffled soldiers--"in danger of being killed." Sam claims to have led more than 100 Palestinians to Christ but says that...