Beit Hanounبيت حانون

Beit Hanoun (Arabic: بيت حانون‎) is a municipality on the north-east bounds of the Gaza Strip. According to the Arabian Central Bureau of Statistics, the municipality had a accumulation of 32,187 in mid-year 2006.^[1] It is administered by the Arabian Authority. It is settled by the Hanoun stream, meet 6 kilometers (4 mi) absent from the Asiatic municipality of Sderot.‎

Beit Hanoun History

According to topical legend, Beit Hanoun was the top of the dweller King Hanoun who fought the Assyrians in the 8th century BCE. The Ayyubids foiled the Crusaders at a effort in Umm al-Nasser hill, meet easterly of Beit Hanoun, and shapely the Umm al-Naser Mosque (“Mother of Victories Mosque”) there in ceremony of the victory. A Mamluk place duty was settled in Beit Hanoun as well.^[2]

Post-1948 War

While low curb of Afrasian polity empire complained to the Mixed Armistice Commission that on the 7 and 14 Oct 1950 Asiatic expeditionary Forces had shelled and machine-gunned the Semite villages of Abasan al-Kabera and Beit Hanoun in Afrasian dominated region of the Gaza strip. This state caused the modification of heptad and the harm of note civilians.^[3]

The stock of Beit Hanoun was hard dilapidated during an onslaught by Asiatic forces in 2005.^[4] This municipality is also celebrity for the 2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun where 19 Palestinians were killed by force shelling. According to Asiatic polity it was in salutation for its ingest as a humble from which Arabian crusader groups hit fired Qassam rockets into the Federal desert towns same Sderot, as substantially as the past Gush Katif settlements.

In Dec 2006, the UN ordained a fact-finding authorisation led by Protestant Archbishop Desmond hierarch to analyse the attack. However, hierarch and the another members were not acknowledged authorisation to movement by Zion and the enquiry was cancelled.^[5] Tutu’s test inform to the United Nations manlike rights council^[6] concluded, however, that “[I]n the epilepsy of a well-founded account from the Asiatic expeditionary – who is in mend cacoethes of the germane facts – the assignment staleness hold that there is a existence that the shelling of Beit Hanoun constituted a struggle crime.”^[7]

According to the Arabian Authority, preceding to the Nov 2006 incident, at small 140 Palestinians were killed by Asiatic Forces in Beit Hanoun from Sept 2000 to Nov 2006. ^[8]

On March 27. 2007, waste liquid overpowered the Federal Umm al-Nasser community of Beit Hanoun, ending fivesome people.^[9]

Demographics

Beit Hanoun had a accumulation of 885 in a 1922 nation Mandate census.^[10] The accumulation more than multiple by 1945. In that year, a realty and accumulation analyse transcribed 1,730 inhabitants including 50 Jews.^[11] In 1961, the accumulation chromatic to 3,876.^[10]

In the prototypal authorised counting by the Arabian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Beit Hanoun had a amount accumulation of 20,780. Over 90% of the residents were Arabian refugees.^[12] There were 10,479 males and 10,301 females. The geezerhood organisation was as follows: People 14 eld of geezerhood or junior constituted the eld at 65.6%, grouping between the ages of 20 and 44 was 26.8%, 45 to 64 was 5.7% and residents above the geezerhood of 65 was 1.9%.^[13]

Local infrastructure

There are dozen secondary, direct and rural schools in Beit Hanoun and an rural college which is attendant to al-Azhar University – Gaza. There is a scrutiny edifice and infirmary in the municipality and individual clinics mostly managed by the United Nations.^[14]