Beit Lahia بيت لاهيا

Beit Lahia (Arabic: بيت لاهيا‎) is a municipality settled northerly of Jabalia, nearby Beit Hanoun and the 1949 Armistice Line with Israel. According to the Arabian Central Bureau of Statistics, the municipality had a accumulation of 59,540 in mid-year 2006.^[1] Hamas, an Islamist party, took curb of it during the 2005 municipal elections.

History

The articulate “Lahia” is Syriac and effectuation “desert” or “fatigue”. It is enclosed by smoothen dunes, whatever uprise to 55 m (180 ft) above seafaring level. The Atlantic is renowned for its some super tree illustration trees. The municipality is famous for its fresh, course water, berries and citrus trees. It has an ancient construction and nearby forsaken community ruins. A mihrab, or masjid niche indicating the content of salaah (prayer), is every that relic of an ancient masjid to the westerly of Beit Lahia dating to the modify of the Fatamid punctuation and first of the Ayyubid Dynasty of Saladin, and digit another mosques dating to the Ottoman period.^[2]

Incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

On January 4, 2005 heptad noncombatant residents of Beit Lahia, including sextet members of the aforementioned family, were killed when an force cell bomb impact the rural Atlantic where they were working. On June 9, 2006, octad civilians were killed patch picnicking on the Federal Gazan beach in Beit Lahia. The departed included heptad members of the calif Ghaliya family.^[3] On December 26, 2008, a vulgar herb fired by Arabian militants lapse brief of its direct in Israel, striking a concern in Beit Lahia and ending digit Arabian schoolgirls.^{[citation needed]} The municipality as a regular direct of airstrikes by Zion and a environs of pure effort between in Zion and Hamas. The Ibrahim al-Maqadna masjid was impact by Asiatic missiles, resulting in cardinal deaths.