Coordinates: 31°32′21″N, 34°32′16″E Beit Hanoun (Arabic: بيت حانون‎) 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. Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... The Arabic language ( ), or simply Arabic ( ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Anthem: Biladi Capital None. ... km redirects here. ... Sederot (Hebrew: (help·info); unofficially also spelled Sderot) is a city in the Southern District of Israel in Israel. ... The article is about the Middle Eastern city. ... A Bedouin man resting on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic (), a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via...

Since before Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Beit Hanoun has been a base from which Hamas has fired Qassam rockets into the northern Negev towns like Sderot, as well as the Gush Katif settlements before their evacuation. As a result, Israel has frequently targeted it with shelling and airstrikes as well as several operation aimed at halting the rocket launchings. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Israels unilateral disengagement plan (termed in Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as the disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Hitnatkut) was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government and enacted in August 2005, to... Hamas (Arabic: ‎; acronym: Arabic: ‎, or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya or Islamic Resistance Movement; the Arabic acronym means zeal) is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization that currently forms the majority party of the Palestinian National Authority. ... The remnants of an exploded Qassam rocket that was fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel. ... Ruins in the Negev desert The Negev (Hebrew נֶגֶב;, Tiberian Hebrew Néḡeḇ; Arabic النقب an-Naqab) is the desert region of southern Israel. ... Gush Katif Gush Katif (also Gush Katiff, Hebrew: גוש קטיף, English: Harvest Belt) was a bloc of 16 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip. ...

November 1, 2006 raid

On November 1, 2006 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 and. The AFP news agency reported that three houses were razed by Israeli bulldozers and a dozen homes were hit by tank shells. Both the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, have described the raid as a massacre.^[1] November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... Raid or RAID may refer to: Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks, or RAID, a system of multiple hard drives for sharing or replicating data. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ×”×”×’× ×” לישראל  , [Army] Force for the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated with the Hebrew acronym צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels defensive forces, comprising the Israeli Army, the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Navy. ... An airstrike is a military strike by air forces on an enemy ground position, which depending on the selected tactics may or may not be followed up by artillery, armor, and/or infantry units. ... A helicopter gunship is a military helicopter armed for attacking targets on the ground, using automatic cannon and machinegun fire, rockets, and precision guided missiles such as the Hellfire. ... AFP as an acronym can stand for: Agence France-Presse Alpha-fetoprotein American Free Press Apple Filing Protocol Association for Financial Professionals Armed Forces Police Australia First Party Australian Federal Police Automatic Frequency Planning, a term used in mobile communications Advanced Function Presentation, an IBM printing architecture and file format. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (tractor) equipped with a blade. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ... Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: محمود عباس) (born March 26, 1935), commonly known by the kunya Abu Mazen (ابو مازن), was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on January 9, 2005, and took office on January 15, 2005. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Ismail Haniya (more frequently Haniyeh) (born 1963) (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية) is the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. ... The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ...

November 3, 2006 Shootings

On November 3, 2006 one ^[2] or two ^[3] Palestinian women were killed and ten were reported wounded by Israeli military fire. The women were gathering outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun after an appeal by a local radio station for people to come and support Palestinian fighters who had barricaded themselves inside. The Israeli military said that their soldiers had spotted two Palestinian militants hiding within the crowd of women. Reuters television footage does not show any militants hiding in the crowd of women, and as yet the IDF has yet to produce proof of such. November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ×”×”×’× ×” לישראל  , [Army] Force for the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated with the Hebrew acronym צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels defensive forces, comprising the Israeli Army, the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Navy. ... The Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Pakistan with an iwan at center, three domes, and five visible minarets A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ...

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"^[4] A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ... Ismail Haniya Ismail Haniya (born 1962) (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية) is a senior political leader of Hamas, a group that has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide bombings targeting civilians, and has been nominated to become the next Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. ...

November 8, 2006 retaliation

Main article: November 2006 Beit Hanoun

See also

• Operation Days of Penitence
• 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict

Combatants Israel Defense Forces Hamas Casualties 5 killed (3 Of them civilians) 104 - 133 killed (42 of them civilians) Operation Days of Penitence (In Hebrew, מבצע ימי תשובה) was the name used by Israel to describe an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip, conducted between September 30, 2004 and October... Combatants Israel Defense Forces (Israeli Security Forces) Hamas Popular Resistance Committees, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Jaish al-Islam Commanders Dan Halutz (Chief of Staff) Yoav Galant (Regional) Khaled Mashal (Leader of Hamas[1])Mohammed Deif (Leader of Hamas military wing) Strength 3,000 unknown Casualties 4 soldiers killed 15 soldiers...

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
4. ^ 19 Palestinians killed in IDF raids in West Bank, Gaza