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Gibeon
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Gib·e·on  (gb-n)
An ancient village of Palestine near Jerusalem. In the Bible, its inhabitants were condemned by Joshua to serve as manual laborers for the Israelites.
Gibe·o·nite n.
Gibeon [ˈgɪbɪən]
n
(Placename) an ancient town of Palestine: the excavated site thought to be its remains lies about 9 kilometres (6 miles) northwest of Jerusalem
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Today it is a walled-off enclave inside the Jewish settlement of Givon HaHadasha that has sprung up on the former farmland.
Fenced in but defiant in Israeli-occupied West Bank by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Today it is a walled-off enclave inside the Jewish settlement of Givon HaHadasha that has sprung up on the former farmland.
Fenced in but defiant in Israeli-occupied West Bank by Palestine News Network (West Bank, Palestine)
Before 1978, the house sat on a 96-dunum piece of land owned by his ancestors, as legal papers show, but since that date, 45 dunums of the land were forcibly grabbed from him by Jewish colonists who settled with a caravan and then expanded to create the colony of Givon Hadashah with a population of more than 2,000.
The real cost of Tel Aviv's insensitive expansion strategy by Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
 
 
 
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