Word: qalqilya
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...sense of urgency characterizes the whole operation. Dekel approached a small building contractor last year, telling him, "I have something to offer you, something that can make you a big builder." Later, in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, Dekel showed the contractor a barren hill a mile north of town. He explained that the government controlled 62½ acres there, and would let the contractor have them for $14,000 per acre, about one-twentieth of what the land would cost in the nearby Israeli towns of Kefar Sava and Ra'ananna. He added, "If you will build...
...Arabs made much of the destruction of the town of Qalqilya, located in the hills, only 14 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. There was no question that the Israelis had forced Qalqilya's entire civilian population of 12,000 to evacuate the town-which was all but razed in heavy fighting. But now that the shooting was over and 2,000 of Qalqilya's citizens were settled in a tent camp outside the town, the Israelis offered them food, shelter and assistance...