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[[File:Gilo 1 sept 2023.jpg|thumb|View of Gilo]]

'''Gilo''' ({{langx|he|גילה}}) is an [[Israeli settlement]] in south-western [[East Jerusalem]], with a population of 30,000. Although it is located within the [[Jerusalem|Jerusalem Municipality]], it is widely considered a settlement, because as one of the five [[Ring Neighborhoods, Jerusalem|Ring Neighborhoods]] built by Israel surrounding Jerusalem, it was built on land in the [[West Bank]] that was [[Israeli occupation of the West Bank|occupied by and effectively annexed to Israel]] following the 1967 [[Six-Day War]] and 1980 [[Jerusalem Law]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/un-official-gilo-expansion-threatens-middle-east-peace-1.3499|title=UN official: Gilo expansion threatens Middle East peace|work=Haarerz|date=24 November 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316194644/http://www.haaretz.com/news/un-official-gilo-expansion-threatens-middle-east-peace-1.3499|archive-date=16 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="nyt2011-09-27">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/world/middleeast/israel-plans-new-housing-in-jerusalem-beyond-1967-boundaries.html|title=Israel Angers Palestinians With Plan for Housing|date=September 27, 2011|work=New York Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120040935/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/world/middleeast/israel-plans-new-housing-in-jerusalem-beyond-1967-boundaries.html|archive-date=November 20, 2016}}</ref><ref name="nyt2009-11-17" /><ref name="jp2007-12-15">{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=85507|title=The strategic significance of Har Homa (op-ed)|last=BEN-DAVID|first=LENNY|date=2007-12-15|publisher=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=2013-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10982961 | work=BBC News | title=Israel dismantles security barrier at Gilo | date=August 16, 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818172901/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10982961 | archive-date=August 18, 2010 }}</ref>

The [[international community]] regards [[Israeli settlement]]s illegal under [[International law and Israeli settlements|international law]], although Israel disputes this.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12969424|title=Israel approves new settler homes|work=BBC News|date=5 April 2011|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517130047/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12969424|archive-date=17 May 2011}}</ref><ref name="The Geneva Convention">{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm |title=The Geneva Convention |work=[[BBC News]] |date=December 10, 2009 |access-date=November 27, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018072358/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm |archive-date=October 18, 2015 }}</ref> Israel also disputes its designation as a settlement, and it is administered as part of the Jerusalem municipality.<ref name="nyt2011-09-27" /><ref name="nyt2009-11-17" /><ref name="The Geneva Convention"/>
[[File:Walaja Barrier 2011.jpg|thumbnail|Map of the Gilo region]]

==Geography==
[[File:Viewfromgilo.jpg|thumb|250px|Panoramic view of Jerusalem from Gilo]]
[[Image:Tunnel to Gush Etzion.jpg|thumb|right|250px|View of Gilo from Beit Jala]]
Gilo is located on a hilltop in southwestern East Jerusalem separated from [[Beit Jala]] by a deep gorge. The [[Route 60 (Israel)|Tunnels Highway]] to [[Gush Etzion]] runs underneath it on the east, and the settlement of [[Har Gilo]] is visible on the adjacent peak. [[Beit Safafa]] and [[Sharafat, East Jerusalem|Sharafat]] are located north of Gilo, while  [[Bethlehem]] is to the South.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://likoed.nl/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107231948/http://www.likud.nl/extr208.html|url-status=dead|title=Het conflict Palestijnen – Israël|archivedate=January 7, 2009|website=Likoed Nederland}}</ref>

==History==

===Biblical era===
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A site dating to the period of [[Israelite highland settlement|Israelite settlement]] during Iron Age I (1200&nbsp;– 1000 BCE) was identified and excavated at the modern site of Gilo. The site revealed a small planned settlement with dwellings along the perimeter of the site, together with pottery dating to the twelfth century BC.<ref name=mazar>[[Amihai Mazar|Mazar, Amihai]], (1994) “The Iron Age I” in Ben-Tor, Amnon (Ed.),  “The Archaeology of Ancient Israel”, pp. 286–295, Yale University Press, {{ISBN|0-300-05919-1}}</ref> The southern part of the Iron Age site at Gilo is believed to be one of the earliest Israelite sites from this period.<ref name=mazar/> The site was surrounded by a defensive wall and divided into large yards, possibly sheep pens, with houses at the edges. Buildings at the site are amongst the earliest examples of the pillared [[four room house]] characteristic of [[Archaeology of Israel#Iron Age / Israelite period|Iron Age Israelite]] architecture, featuring a courtyard divided by stone pillars, a rectangular back room and rooms along the courtyard. The foundations of a structure built of large stones were also uncovered, possibly a fortified defense tower.<ref name=mazar/>

The biblical town of Giloh is mentioned in the [[Book of Joshua]] (Joshua 15:51) and the [[Book of Samuel]] (II Sam 15:12).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hatzola.org.il/gilo.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227125402/http://www.hatzola.org.il/gilo.asp|url-status=dead|title=Gilo & Har Choma|archivedate=February 27, 2007}}</ref> Some scholars believe that biblical Giloh was located in the central [[Hebron Hills]], whereas the name of the modern settlement was chosen because of its proximity to Beit Jala, possibly a corruption of Giloh.<ref name="jp2009-11-29"/>
During the construction of the modern suburb of Gilo, archaeologists discovered a fortress and agricultural implements from the period of the [[First Temple]] period above the shopping center on Rehov Haganenet. Between Givat Canada and Gilo Park, they unearthed the remains of a farm and graves from the [[Second Temple]] period. Roman and Byzantine remains have also been found at various sites.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=2246&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=197|title=Jerusalem neighborhoods|website=jerusalem.muni.il|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409055909/http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=2246&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=197|archive-date=9 April 2011}}</ref>

===Modern era===
[[File:GilostreetS.jpg|thumb|Street in Gilo]]
According to [[Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem|ARIJ]], Israel confiscated land from several [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] villages/towns in order to construct Gilo:

*1,529 [[dunam]]s from [[Sharafat, East Jerusalem|Sharafat]] and [[Beit Safafa]],<ref name="ARIJp14">[http://vprofile.arij.org/jerusalem/pdfs/vprofile/beitsafafa_shurafat.pdf Beit Safafa & Sharafat Town Profile]  p. 14</ref>
*594 dunums from [[Bethlehem]],<ref>[http://vprofile.arij.org/bethlehem/pdfs/VP/Bethlehem_cp_en.pdf Bethlehem City Profile], ARIJ, p. 25</ref>
*570 dunams from [[Beit Jala]],<ref>[http://vprofile.arij.org/bethlehem/pdfs/VP/Beit%20Jala_cp_en.pdf Beit Jala City Profile] ARIJ pp. 23-24</ref>
*45 dunams from [[al-Walaja]].<ref>[http://vprofile.arij.org/bethlehem/pdfs/VP/Al%20Walaja_vp_en.pdf Al Walaja Village Profile], p. 17</ref>

During the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], the [[Egypt]]ian army positioned its artillery at Gilo, heavily shelling West Jerusalem. An attempt to advance on Jerusalem from Gilo was beaten back in a fierce battle. [[Kibbutz]] [[Ramat Rachel]], located just north-east of Gilo, [[Battles of Ramat Rachel|changed hands three times]], ultimately remaining part of Israel, but Gilo remained on the side of the [[Green Line (Israel)|Green Line]] held by the Kingdom of Jordan until 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62869812.html?dids=62869812:62869812&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24%2C+2000&author=GAIL+LICHTMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=A+history+of+Jerusalem%27s+highest+neighborhood&pqatl=google|title=A history of Jerusalem's highest neighborhood|website=pqarchiver.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725110936/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62869812.html?dids=62869812:62869812&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24%2C+2000&author=GAIL+LICHTMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=A+history+of+Jerusalem%27s+highest+neighborhood&pqatl=google|archive-date=25 July 2012}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=November 2019}}

In 1970, the Israeli government expropriated 12,300 dunams of land to build [[Ring Neighborhoods, Jerusalem|Ring Neighborhoods]] around Jerusalem on land conquered in the [[Six-Day War]].

Gilo was established in 1973. According to some sources, the land belonged to the Palestinian villages of [[Sharafat, East Jerusalem|Sharafat]], [[Beit Jala]] and [[Beit Safafa]].<ref name=Cohenp82/><ref name=Ashkenasip293>{{cite book|title=The future of Jerusalem|first1=Abraham|last1=Ashkenasi|editor=Abraham Ashkenasi|page=293|publisher=P. Lang|year=1999|isbn=0-8204-3505-8 }}"Gilo It was established in 1973 on Beit Safafa, Sharafat and Beit Jala land..."</ref> With its expansion over the years, Gilo has formed a wedge between Jerusalem and Beit Jala-[[Bethlehem]].<ref name=Cohenp82>{{cite book|title=The politics of planting: Israeli-Palestinian competition for control of land in the Jerusalem periphery|author=Shaul Ephraim Cohen|edition=Illustrated|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1993|isbn=0-226-11276-4 }}</ref>

==Demography==
[[File:Beit Or, Gilo settlement of Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|250px|Beit Or hostel]]
In 2017, Gilo had a population of 30,900.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jerusaleminstitute.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/PUB_505_facts-and-trends_eng_2019_web.pdf|title=Jerusalem Facts and Trends|year=2019|author1=Korach, Michal|author2=Choshen, Maya|publisher=[[Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research]]|page=21|access-date=February 26, 2020}}</ref> From its inception, Gilo has provided housing to [[olim|new Jewish immigrants]] from around the world. Many of those who spent their first months in the country at the immigrant hostel in Gilo, including those from Iran, Syria, France and South America, chose to remain in the neighborhood. Since the large influx of [[Soviet Jews]] in the 1990s, Gilo has absorbed 15% of all immigrants of that wave settling in Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=2246&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=197|title=Jerusalem neighborhoods: Gilo|website=jerusalem.muni.il|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409055909/http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/picture/atarim/site_form_atar_eng.asp?site_id=2246&pic_cat=4&icon_cat=6&york_cat=9&type_id=197|archive-date=9 April 2011}}</ref> The immigrant hostel is now the site of an [[urban kibbutz]], Beit Yisrael.<ref name="jp2009-11-29"/> Gilo is a mixed community of religious and secular Jews, although more [[Haredi]] families are moving in.<ref name="jp2009-11-29">{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/Article.aspx?id=161713|title=Housing on the horizon?|last=LIDMAN|first=MELANIE|date=2009-11-29|publisher=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=2013-03-24}}</ref>

==Schools and institutions==
Beit Or (Home of Light), a hostel for [[autism|autistic]] young adults, opened in Gilo in March 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/Health/Article.aspx?id=974|title=A house for life|website=jpost.com|date=21 September 2005 |access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref> The Ilan home for handicapped adults is located in Gilo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesourceisrael.com/issue13/lend.shtml|title=Gilo Residence of the Ilan Foundation|website=thesourceisrael.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717031530/http://www.thesourceisrael.com/issue13/lend.shtml|archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> Gilo has 35 synagogues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourjerusalem.com/ourjerusalem/story/oj20040319.html|title=Our Jerusalem: Pain and sorrow are not a sign of weakness|website=ourjerusalem.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011005126/http://www.ourjerusalem.com/ourjerusalem/story/oj20040319.html|archive-date=11 October 2008}}</ref> In 2009, the Gilo community center, one of the largest in the country, introduced a new hybrid [[water heating]] system that saves energy and greatly reduces pollution.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=147071|title=Hybrid water heating system to be dedicated at Gilo community center|last=Waldoks|first=Ehud Zion|date=2013-03-24|publisher=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=2013-03-24}}</ref> Park Gilo has a large adventure playground for children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.go-israel.com/|title=Israel hot spots: Jerusalem information|website=go-israel.com|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>

==Settlement debate==
[[File:Gilocrossing.jpg|thumb|250px|Gilo shopping center and residential towers]]
Because Gilo is located beyond the 1949 [[Green Line (Israel)|Green Line]], on land occupied since the [[Six-Day War]], the United Nations,<ref>[https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/7D01FC0B49D062A0852576720043BEC3 SECRETARY-GENERAL DEPLORES ISRAEL'S SETTLEMENT EXPANSION DECISION] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725175121/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/7D01FC0B49D062A0852576720043BEC3 |date=2014-07-25 }} November 17, 2009</ref> the European Union<ref name="euo2009-11-19">{{cite web|url=http://euobserver.com/9/29018|title=EU rebukes Israel for Jerusalem settlement expansion|last=PHILLIPS|first=LEIGH|date=November 19, 2009|publisher=EUobserver.com|access-date=February 25, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122191045/http://euobserver.com/9/29018|archive-date=November 22, 2009}}</ref> and Japan<ref name="apjMcGlynn">{{cite journal|last=McGlynn|first=John|date=December 28, 2008|title=Japan, Israeli Settlements, and the Future of a Palestinian State|journal=[[The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus]]|issue=52–1–09|url=http://www.japanfocus.org/-John-McGlynn/3276|access-date=February 25, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505053458/http://www.japanfocus.org/-John-McGlynn/3276|archive-date=May 5, 2010}}</ref> refer to it as an illegal settlement.

Israel disputes this, and considers it a neighborhood of Jerusalem.<ref name="nyt2009-11-17">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?_r=1&ref=global-home|title=Plan to Expand Jerusalem Settlement Angers U.S.|last=KERSHNER|first=ISABEL|date=November 17, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 24, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424134402/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?_r=1&ref=global-home|archive-date=April 24, 2018}}</ref><ref name="euo2009-11-19" /> In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Gilo community council director Yaffa Shitrit, invited the world "to come and see the neighborhood of Gilo and to understand the geography. We're not a settlement, we're part of the city of Jerusalem, we're a neighborhood like [[Katamon]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gojerusalem.com/discover/article_1259/Gilo-residents-issue-invitation-to-the-world|title=Oops! the page you were looking for doesn't exist, please retry – GoJerusalem|website=www.gojerusalem.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721225914/http://www.gojerusalem.com/discover/article_1259/Gilo-residents-issue-invitation-to-the-world|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> [[Palestinian people|Palestinians]] regard it as occupied territory and make no distinction between Gilo and the West Bank settlements.<ref name="nyt2000-12-22">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EFDF1638F931A15751C1A9669C8B63|title=The War Within East Jerusalem (op-ed)|last=Klein Halevi|first=Yossi |date=December 22, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 25, 2010}}</ref>

Plans to expand Gilo have drawn criticism from the United States and United Kingdom. Israel maintains that it has the right to build freely in Gilo because the neighborhood is within (expanded) Jerusalem municipal borders and not a [[West Bank]] settlement.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-israel-idUSTRE5AH15I20091118 |title=Obama criticizes Israel over settlement-building|work=Reuters|date=Nov 18, 2009|author=Jeffrey Heller|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924143805/http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/18/us-palestinians-israel-idUSTRE5AH15I20091118|archive-date=2015-09-24}}</ref> In 2009, the Jerusalem Planning Committee approved construction of 900 new housing units in Gilo, sparking a fresh round of global criticism.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gojerusalem.com/discover/article_1240/Gilo-neighborhood-receives-approval-to-build-900-housing-units|title=Oops! the page you were looking for doesn't exist, please retry – GoJerusalem|website=www.gojerusalem.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721225938/http://www.gojerusalem.com/discover/article_1240/Gilo-neighborhood-receives-approval-to-build-900-housing-units|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref>

==Arab-Israeli conflict==
[[File:MuralbarrierS.jpg|thumb|250px|Concrete wall decorated with landscape mural built to shield Gilo residents from Palestinian gunfire (dismantled in 2010)]]
From 2000, Beit Jala, a predominantly [[Palestinian Christian]] town, was used as a base by [[Fatah]]'s [[Tanzim]] gunmen to launch sniper and mortar attacks<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/world/gilo-waits-for-deliverance-as-mideast-violence-goes-on.html|title=Gilo Waits for Deliverance As Mideast Violence Goes On|first=Clyde|last=Haberman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 August 2001|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930040103/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/world/gilo-waits-for-deliverance-as-mideast-violence-goes-on.html|archive-date=30 September 2017}}</ref> against Gilo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998782-5,00.html|title=Fields Of Fire|first=Matt|last=Rees|date=18 December 2000|access-date=24 April 2018|via=www.time.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104230617/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998782-5,00.html|archive-date=4 November 2012}}</ref> The Israeli government built a concrete barrier and installed bulletproof windows in the homes and schools on the periphery of Gilo, facing Beit Jala.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-03-mn-41607-story.html|title=It's Back-to-School Day for Israeli Children on Gilo's Front Line|first=TRACY|last=WILKINSON|date=3 September 2001|access-date=24 April 2018|via=LA Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705190321/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/03/news/mn-41607?pg=3 |archive-date=5 July 2011}}</ref> The attacks on Gilo subsided after [[Operation Defensive Shield]], with the rate slowing to three incidents of gunfire that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1130006.html|title=Shooting and buying, Haaretz|website=haaretz.com|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422233736/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1130006.html|archive-date=22 April 2010}}</ref> On August 15, 2010, following years of relative quiet, the [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] started dismantling the concrete barrier, nearly a decade after its construction.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3936222,00.html|title=עשור אחרי: שכונת גילה נפרדת מחומות הבטון|first=רונן|last=מדזיני|date=15 August 2010|access-date=24 April 2018|newspaper=Ynet|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628060221/http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3936222,00.html|archive-date=28 June 2017}}</ref>

Seventeen of the 19 passengers killed in the [[Patt Junction bus bombing]] were residents of Gilo.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/world/mideast-turmoil-the-mood-in-jerusalem-despair-and-determination.html|title=MIDEAST TURMOIL: THE MOOD; In Jerusalem, Despair and Determination|first=Ian|last=Fisher|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 June 2002|access-date=24 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527211613/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/world/mideast-turmoil-the-mood-in-jerusalem-despair-and-determination.html |archive-date=27 May 2015}}</ref>

==Notable residents==
*[[Eli Amir]] (born 1937), writer and civil servant
*[[Yisrael Friedman (Pashkaner Rebbe)|Yisrael Friedman]] (born 1923), rabbi
*[[Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing|Rami Levy]] (born 1955), founder of Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing

==See also==
*[[Positions on Jerusalem]]
*[[List of modern names for biblical place names]]
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Gilo}}
* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DE1230F933A0575BC0A9679C8B63 Israeli Army Leaves Palestinian Town In West Bank After 2 Days of Tension], Clyde Haberman, ''[[New York Times]]''
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E7DA1630F93BA1575BC0A9679C8B63 Widening Hostilities, Israel Kills Chief of P.L.O. Faction], Joel Greenberg, [[New York Times]]
*[https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/08/27/tanks.htm Israeli troops won't relinquish West Bank town] Michele Chabin, [[USA Today]]
* [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/08/29/mideast/index.html Israelis leaving Beit Jala, say Palestinians] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113165132/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/08/29/mideast/index.html |date=2008-01-13 }}, [[CNN]]
*[https://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/04/27/israeli_barrier_draws_artists_to_a_cause/ Israeli barrier draws artists to a cause]  Matthew Kalman, [[The Boston Globe]]
*[http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060430/news_1t30jeru.html To truly see Jerusalem, try varied perspectives], Steven Erlanger, [[San Diego Union Tribune]]
*[https://www.foxnews.com/story/school-students-heard-explosion-outside School Students Heard Explosion Outside] [[Associated Press]]
*[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blast-hits-palestinian-hq/ Blast Hits Palestinian HQ], [[CBS News]]
*[http://maurice-ostroff.tripod.com/id249.html Gilo, settlements, and the Green Line in perspective]

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