Gaza Strip

The Palestinians have utilized UNi as a main charge explosive for many years. Along with TATP (to be discussed in the next section), it remains one of the main explosives in the Palestinian arsenal. A photograph taken by the author in the Gaza Strip shows a sample of Palestinian UNi (see Fig. 3.3). Urea in fertilizer form is seldom pure. It carries a good number of impurities that create a beige color in the final UNi. 

Jordanian officials discovered in their investigation that the bomb-making factory also served as a training facility for those involved in the terrorist cell. The detonators recovered were filled with either TATP or HMTD and were manufactured by members of the cell learning how to produce such improvised initiators. The paper detonators matched those produced by known Al-Qaeda-trained terrorists. Similar detonators were seen in the Gaza Strip, Uzbekistan, and Turkey by the author. 

The participants of Malta-Ill unanimously adopted a resolution calling on world governments to address the critical shortage of clean water in the Gaza strip (see box for full text of the Resolution). 

Resolution on water in the Gaza Strip from the Conference on Frontiers of Chemical Sciences III Research and Education in the Middle East ... 

As scientists from throughout the Middle East, with some of their colleagues from other parts of the world, we wish to draw immediate and urgent attention to one such issue. Water is of central importance to human life water in the Gaza Strip is of particular concern in terms of quantity and quality, threatening the health of every inhabitant regardless of their political inclination. 

Physicians for Human Rights, The Casualties of Conflict Medical Care and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Physicians for Human Rights, Somerville, M A, 1988. 

Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Indonesia in Timor Leste. 

Alfa Laval) 120 k + 30 kmV Seawater Gaza Strip Model development based on [80]... 

Characterization of uncertainties in the operation and economies of the proposed seawater desalination plant in the Gaza Strip was made by using a Bayesian belief network (BBN) approach [80]. In particular, the model was used to (1) characterize the different uncertainties involved in the RO process, (2) optimize the RO process reliability and cost, and (3) study how uncertainty in unit capital cost, unit operation and maintenance (O M) cost, and permeate quality was related to different input variables. The minimum specific capital cost was found to be 0.224 0.064 US /m, and the minimum O M cost was found to be 0.59 0.11 US /m. This unit cost was for a production capacity of 140,000 mVday. 

Ghabayen S, McKee M, and Kemblowski M, Characterization of uncertainties in the operation and economics of the proposed seawater desalination plant in the Gaza Strip, Desalination 2004, 161, 191-201. 

Al-Agha MR (2006) Weathering of building stones and its relationship to the sustainable management of the aggregate resources in Gaza Strip, Palestine. BuUd Environ 41 676-686. doi 10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.02.012... 

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