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Beit Hanoun (Template:Lang-ar) is a town of 35,000 which is administered by the Palestinian Authority like the rest of the Gaza Strip. It is located on the north-east edge of the Gaza Strip by the Hanoun stream, just 6 km away from the Israeli town of Sderot. As opposed to nearby Gaza City, its population is almost entirely of Bedouin descent. More than 5,000 of its residents are part of the "Zaneen" tribe.

Since before Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Beit Hanoun has been alleged as a base from which Hamas has fired Qassam rockets into the northern Negev towns like Sderot, as well as the Gush Katif settlements. As a result, Israel has frequently targeted it with shelling and airstrikes as well as several operation.

2006 Operation Autumn Clouds

November 1 Raid

On November 1, 2006, in the largest military operation by Israel since Operation Summer Rains, six Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed and 35 people were wounded during a raid on Beit Hanoun by the Israeli military. The raid involved three air strikes, sixty tanks backed by helicopter gunships. The AFP news agency reported that three houses were razed by Israeli bulldozers and a dozen homes were hit by tank shells. The raid was the beggining of Operation Autumn Clouds by the Israeli Military. Both the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, have described the raid as a massacre.

November 3 Shootings

On November 3, 2006 one Palestinian woman was killed and ten were reported wounded by Israeli military fire. The women had gathered outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun after an appeal by the local radio for women to come and act as human shields to help Palestinian fighters flee an Israeli siege on the mosque where they were hiding. The Israeli military claimed that their soldiers had spotted two Palestinian militants dressed in women's clothes hiding within the crowd of women.

The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Ismail Haniyeh, praised the women whom he said "...led the protest to break the siege of Beit Hanoun".

November 7 Withdrawal

Palestinian government officials said on 7 November that IDF troops were beginning to withdraw, thus ending the operation. Fifty-three Palestinians, including 16 civilians, and an IDF soldier, were killed since October 31.

November 8 Shelling

Main article: Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident

Several civilian houses in Beit Hanoun were struck by shells, fired by the Israeli Defense Force. At least 19 Palestinian civilians were killed and 40 wounded.

November 9

Assistant Secretary-General Angela Kane of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs briefed the United Nations Security Council on the shelling. She "urged both sides in the conflict to 'return to dialogue' ".

November 16

On November 16, terrorists firing from Beit Hanoun launched a Qassam rocket at the Israeli town of Sderot, killing a civilian woman and injuring a civilian man. Israel's Prime Minister released a statement saying: ""This is precisely the type of murderous attacks that we are trying to prevent. Israel will take any means necessary in protecting our citizens."

See also

References

  1. Israel Launches Major Gaza Raid
  2. 19 Palestinians killed in IDF raids in West Bank, Gaza
  3. Israeli troops open fire on women outside mosque
  5. Gunman may have dressed as women in mosque raid
  6. 19 Palestinians killed in IDF raids in West Bank, Gaza
  7. PA sources: IDF soldiers begin pulling out of northern Gaza Ha'aretz

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