Tall Bayt Mirsham (Tell Beit Mirsim) was excavated (1926 32) by W.F. Albright, who uncovered exceptionally clear stratification from which he was able to give the first comprehensive description of Palestinian pottery sequences between about 2300 and 588 bce.
Mohammed al-Kafarna, the mayor of Beit Hanoun, a northern town which saw fierce fighting and heavy bombardment, said 70% of homes were uninhabitable.
North of Beit Lahia on Monday, people picked through the ruins of a series of apartment blocks facing the border with Israel that have been almost totally destroyed.
In Beit Hanoun, the 60-bed hospital was shut after being hit by shell fire.
"Turkish lorries drive from Haifa [the Israel port] to the Beit She'an valley into Jordan, to bring Turkish exports to the Arabian peninsular.
Here he points at a settlement map in the West Bank settlement of Beit Arieh in November 1995 Source: AP Palestinian women passing the body of a victim of the massacres in the camp of Sabra, Beirut in 1982.
Ahmad Saba, a doctor and a member of the powerful Kafarneh clan in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, says he (and, he estimates, some 1,200 of his kinsmen) has been unable to go to work in Gaza City for three months because of a feud between the Kafarnehs and the city's Dughmush clan.
The Palestinians say that Mr Barak was offering them sovereignty over several districts on the edge of Jerusalem's municipal borders Israeli sources say these included Beit Hanina, Kalandia and Shuafat in return for Israel annexing three large Jewish settlements, Ma'ale Edumim, Gush Etzion and Givat Ze'ev, and making them part of Jerusalem.
Although it is impossible to sell such famous works on the open market, in the criminal underworld they are valued at somewhere around 7% of their true worth, which makes them useful collateral for the drugs and arms trade.While Mr Hart's account is the first to chronicle the complex tale of the Beit art theft, it occasionally reads like a TV docu-drama script.
1953 Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip July 22 , 2002Gaza, Gaza Strip Salah Mustafa Shehada, (born 1953, Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip died July 22 , 2002 Gaza City, Gaza Strip) Palestinian guerrilla leader who, was the commander of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, the military wing of the anti-Israeli Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement).
But while the Palestinians have stuck to their agreement to postpone pressing their case for statehood at international bodies, Israel has infringed its unannounced de facto moratorium on settlement expansion with recent moves on the retroactive legalisation of four unauthorised outposts and the construction of 300 houses at Beit El.
