Talk:Nir Yitzhak attack

Verifiability
Not a single source asserts a "Nir Yitzhak massacre", even primary Israeli news sources. The vast majority of sources on this page do not say anything about a massacre, and those that do exclusively refer to a broader massacre of 7 October. For this article to justify its standalone existence multiple reliable third-party sources would need to be included that specifically discuss a "Nir Yitzhak massacre", otherwise we're left with either WP:OR or the parroting back of biased news coverage. Dylanvt (talk) 15:28, 22 December 2023 (UTC)


 * There's nothing biased about the news coverage, there's plenty of sources to meet GNG, the term Nir Yitzhak massacre is indeed used in sources, so your statement is wrong, and the article should not be tagged for notability. Andre🚐 19:53, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Updating Holit, Netiv HaAsara and Nir Yitzhak articles to Wikipedia standards
Daniel, Dylanvt, Oleg Yunakov, VR, Oaktree b, Marokwitz, Arminden, Andrevan, BabbaQ, Eladkarmel, Dovidroth, Timothy, Abo Yemen, Homerethegreat, Gidonb, Sg7438, Agmonsnir, Eladkarmel, Ali Ahwazi, Nableezy, דוד שי, 93.173.65.132, Ronash, User:Longhornsg, Iskandar323, SaintPaulOfTarsus, Gonnym, Loksmythe, Chrisanthusjohn, ZimZalaBim, Jebiguess, Nythar, User:Super Dromaeosaurus I’ve pinged everyone involved in the three AfDs for the Holit, Netiv HaAsara and Nir Yitzchak articles, and everyone who has made major edits (excl. those who didn’t incl. edit summaries or only made cat changes) on them since their creation (please ping anyone I left out by mistake). If you’re not interested, I apologise, I won’t be pinging on these articles again.

I did say in my !vote that I’d be updating the articles to proper Wikipedia standards if they were kept, which I’m now going to do. I would however like these updates to be joint work by anyone interested from any side of the debate, so that the final articles, while maybe not fully pleasing everyone, will at least leave editors feeling that their thoughts have been included/considered to make the articles as neutral and verifiable as possible. Please discuss what you think is required for that to happen on each talk page. Remember WP:Civil and WP:Cool.

No one needs to tell me that my ideals are naive (I’ve been told before 🙄), but I honestly believe that it’s possible to work together on these articles if we follow the rules, despite the impossibility of the real life situation.

To that end I’m making some proposals below. I definitely don’t consider myself as OWNing these articles so you’re obviously free to edit the articles as normal.

Suggestions

 * 1) I’ve used the following outline for articles like these before and find it useful for grouping RS’s to make a coherent story. I’d appreciate comments, amendments etc.
 * Lead: Short background on the general attack, and summary specifics on this one
 * Background of Kibbutz/Moshav
 * Attack: Specifcs on this attack
 * Casualties and Abductees: including hostage releases related I this attack
 * - Foreign employees: If any
 * - Kibbutz/Moshave residents
 * - IDF
 * - Hamas: See point 2
 * Aftermath

I will go through the AfD for each article as I edit it, and try to take into account as much as was said there as possible from all perspectives so nothing there needs repeating. But most of the sources mentioned there relate to one combatant’s view. I don’t know where to find articles related to attack specific information from the Hamas side (if it exists) which could be used to balance the article. I sometimes come across videos stating opinions, but I can’t interpret the Arabic. I also understand from reviewing other articles that using Hamas as a monolithic label for the other combatant is inappropriate because various groups are included under that banner (as in the "Hamas-led" change made to the main article), but I don’t have knowledge of the details involved. I would therefore appreciate those who do have access to and understanding of this information to provide the sources (with summaries or interpretations if necessary) on each article’s talk page, or just edit the appropriate information into the article as it’s being updated. If you think something’s going to be contentious discuss it on the talk page first. I’m starting with this article because I already did a partial casualty/abductee table for the AfD. Given my current constraints it will take me 2-3 days to update it, so anyone who wishes to should work on the others, or help me on this one. I obviously can’t insist, but it would probably make things easier if we can wait for any article move proposals until the articles are updated. The AfD debates were emotional, and we might be able to discuss name changes more easily if we give it some time and joint work on the articles. I’m aware that some of you have recently been 3-month topic banned from this area which some of you are appealing. PLEASE DON’T RESPOND TO THIS until your ban is overturned, or over I don’t want to get any of you into further trouble. I included you because I think it fair that you are aware of what’s happening post the AfD you participated in (and I’m actually not aware of all the people involved). ScottishFinnishRadish I’m pinging you just so you’re aware I pinged them and they shouldn’t be judged for my action (nor should they breach their bans). Thank you for your work in this area. Ayenaee (talk) 01:08, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Update complete
I’ve completed the update. It could probably use some ce. Ayenaee (talk) 22:14, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 10 January 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Kiwiz1338 (talk) 09:09, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Nir Yitzhak massacre → Nir Yitzhak attack – The term "massacre" is loaded and thus WP:POVNAME. That would be ok if there was a "significant majority" of sources that called it that, but there aren't. Firstly, neither "Nir Yitzhak massacre" nor "Nir Yitzhak" appear to be proper names, so we will have to use a descriptive name, and WP:DESCRIPTORs should "be specific but neutral". Most English sources use the "attack" or "attacked" descriptor to describe the event (emphasis mine):
 * The Guardian: "the Leimbergs were visiting Marman, Gabriela’s sister, when Nir Yitzhak was attacked on 7 October."
 * BBC News: uses "7 October attacks by Hamas" to describe attacks Nir Yitzhak, Nir Oz etc.
 * Japan Times: "militants calmly walking through the green pathways of Beeri and other kibbutzim such as Kfar Aza, Nir Yitzhak, Nir Oz and Nirim. Hamas says 1,200 of its "fighters" attacked 50 different sites on that Saturday"
 * CBC News: "Gefen Sigal's mother, Clara Marman, just turned 64 when she was abducted from her home in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak...The group had gathered for the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah and were sheltering in their safe room after the Hamas attack, texting Sigal until right before they were taken. "
 * USA Today "Hamas militants take hostages and pet dog in footage from October 7 attack...in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, Israel, on October 7."
 * Vatican News: "The testimony of a resident of Nir Yitzhak Kibbutz that was attacked by Hamas on 7 October and his hope for peace." VR talk 05:01, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
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 * Support If sources are tending to call this an attack, then Nir Yitzhak massacre is a POV name. Cinderella157 (talk) 08:15, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per above. Parham wiki (talk) 09:58, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support "attack" as NPOV. Sammy D III (talk) 12:10, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Support: per the sources, as above. And per descriptive accuracy given that the incident overwhelmingly involved security personnel/active combatants. Nothing really massacre-esque here. Iskandar323 (talk) 15:31, 13 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Support: per Iskander323’s second reason (descriptive accuracy). No civilians were killed. So the elements of a massacre (killing unresisting defenseless people) are not part of the attack. A massacre was avoided because the people in the factory weren’t lured out, and the rescue team were successful at protecting the residents. May the memory of those who died be for a blessing. Ayenaee (talk) 17:23, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Fair use of Released_hostage_Mia_Leimberg,_with_father_Moses_and_dog_Bella.jpeg image
Hi User:Alaexis, thank you for the edit you did on this article, moving the picture used as the main image to the hostage section with the edit summary "the image is relevant to the Hostages section; the caption was misleading". [Please note that I operate on a WP:BD[R] not WP:BRD basis (don’t revert good faith bold edits, go straight to discuss, only revert if there’s consensus). But there are exceptions (vandalism, BLP breaches etc). In this case I believe your edit was in good faith, but there is a copyvio breach using this image anywhere but as the main image, see first point below. So I’ve reverted your edit, so the image can remain "parked" in its free-use place until we reach consensus. I’ve retained what you indicate you believe is not a misleading cation. Please don’t redo the edit until our discussion is complete "Mia Leimberg pictured in the image with her dog, Bella, and her father after being released as part of the Hamas-Israel hostage swop on 28 November 2023. Seventeen year old Mia, with four other family members, was taken hostage to Gaza during an attack on Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on 7 October 2023. She smuggled the dog with her as she was being abducted. The abductors only noticed the dog when they arrived at the tunnels the hostages were taken to. They allowed Mia to keep the dog. She credits Bella with helping her to deal with the trauma of the situation much better than others. She, her mother, and her aunt were released together. Her appearance holding Bella surprised the media, and the public once the situation was explained...It will be the main image of the article in the infobox above the map currently there. The article was just closed as 'keep' in an AfD because it meets WP:N, WP:V, WP:RS. However a major issue of concern was that that it was not balanced sufficiently. There are two notable (widely reported) stories of mercy shown by Hamas in this attack which should be highlighted. One is letting an elderly wounded couple who were being taken hostage return to their home rather than being taken over the Gaza border, which had already been reached. The other one relates to the child in the picture (Mia) and her dog (Bella). Mia and her entire family (aunt, aunt’s partner, mother, uncle) were taken hostage to Gaza. Only her father was not taken. Mia took her dog with her hidden under her pajama’s. The kidnappers only realised it was a dog rather than a doll when they reach the tunnels in Gaza where the family was kept. The mercy shown was that they let her keep the dog, which allowed her to deal with the situation with much less trauma than others (she had something to look after rather than only worry about herself). She, her mother, and her aunt were released in the Hamas-Israel hostage swop. The world was amazed to see Mia appear with Bella. It’s important that this story be highlighted. Using this picture rather than one of the horrible pictures of death used as main images for other similar articles, would go some way in adding balance to the article. I have searched everywhere I can think of for a free-use image of the image, but can’t find any. There are three main non-free versions: This one, one of her walking to freedom with two Hamas soldiers walking on either side of her, and one of her seeming to talk to the soldiers. The ‘soldier‘ pictures seem slightly threatening. This one is more appropriate for balancing and highlighting the event."
 * Copyvio issue: The image is not free-use, it is copyrighted to the photographer and Getty Images. Although I agree with you that it could be used used to illustrate the hostage section, this would not meet the stringent fair-use criteria. I justified fair-use based on the image being used as the main image. So either it has to be used as the main image or, if consensus decides otherwise, deleted from Wikipedia. Using it in the hostage section is not an option as it would be a copyvio breach.
 * Fair-use justification: My fair-use justification, which also justifies why I believe it is a suitable main image, was:
 * "caption misleading": Could you please explain why you consider this to be the case? The caption was "Mia Leimberg after her release, with her dog, Bella, and father. Her kidnappers allowing her to keep Bella, helped her to manage her trauma." Her kidnappers did allow her to keep the dog, and she herself states it helped her deal with the trauma. The references supporting the caption are in the hostage section to which the caption links. You’ll note that I didn’t use the concept of the image illustrating mercy in the caption, since this isn’t in sources explicitly, I only used it in the fair-use justification.
 * image is relevant to the Hostages section: Ignoring the copyvio issue, I agree that this is the case. But just because an image can be used in a section doesn’t exclude it being used as a main image. My fair-use justification states why I believe that to be the case here. Basically to balance the article. Ayenaee (talk) 10:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The picture in the infobox should be about the main topic of the article, which is the attack on Nir Yitzhak. Several people have died, several more were kidnapped, not to mention the material damage to the kibbutz. In view of this, I think that a picture showing the destruction is more appropriate (for example commons:File:%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%97%D7%A7_%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95_%D7%A2%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A9%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%94.jpg this one).
 * The picture is Mia and her dog is more relevant to the Hostages section. Would you be able to amend the fair use rationale for it to appear in that section?
 * As for the caption, the source only says that according to Mia The wording "Her kidnappers allowing her to keep Bella, helped her to manage her trauma" assumes that this was the kidnappers' intent, which is not what the source says. Alaexis¿question? 14:18, 13 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi User:Alaexis, thanks for the response. [I hope you don’t mind but I moved the square brackets in your link above - it included the words "this one" so didn’t link properly].
 * Caption : I agree with you. My intention was to indicate how the dog comforted Mia (which is in the source) not that this is what the kidnappers intended. But I can see how the way I wrote it seems to indicate this. If the image is retained (in either place) I would still like this element to remain. So I would change the caption to "Released hostage Mia Leimberg, her father, and her dog, Bella, who was with her and provided her comfort during her captivity"
 * Choice of image : Yes, the picture you linked is the one I would have used if I hadn’t decided on the Mia/Bella one. Now that you’ve reminded me of it, once this discussion is finished I will include that picture either as the main image or to illustrate the attack section. I can (and will if that’s the final decision) try to justify the Mia/Bella picture as fair use for the hostage section, but there are some criteria which are more weakly justified than if it’s the main picture.
 * I agree that the main image should illustrate the article. But I have a different view about what the article is about. For background on how my thinking has developed: I have been involved (on the keep side) in AdFs for 5 of these articles (Alumim, Yakhini, Netiv, HaAsara, and this one). All were eventually closed as keep, except Yakhini which was merged. I pledged during the AdFs that if they were kept I would research refs in depth and rewrite them because, although I believed they were clearly notable, I also agreed with some !voters that they weren’t researched deeply enough or written in wiki voice.
 * I have now completed that for Alumim and this article. I have just finished the research for Holit and will start rewriting it tomorrow. I have read almost 70 sources recording death and destruction, and, sacrifice and bravery. I mourn for all those deaths, may their memory be a blessing.
 * My main revelation in doing this work is that, although these articles are all about violent attacks, and that is clearly indicated in the articles, they each happened in different ways and each have different stories to tell:
 * Alumim is about the foreign employees who were attacked and massacred first, which allowed the safety team time to get in place to stop the massacring of other residents
 * Holit is about a massacre of defenseless kibbutz residents and the sacrifices they made to save others. It’s also about there being many peace activists killed, and the different ways in which their families reacted to their deaths.
 * Nir Yitzhak is about the bravery of the safety team who in loosing 5 members managed to avoid the killing of any other resident. It also about the quick reactions of the factory workers who managed to barricade themselves in and prevent their own massacre. It’s also about the hostages, the elderly couple who managed to argue their way out of captivity, and the story of Mia and Bella and her family.
 * To me this means that the main image to illustrate the story is not necessarily one of violence, but can also illustrate one of the other important elements of the story. That is without detracting from the violence, included in the body, and potentially also illustrated there.
 * The choice is particularly clear in this article. We can emphasise the violence by using the vehicle picture, and leave the Mia/Bella story as subsidiary to that. Or, as I prefer, use the image of a young girl who managed to find comfort in her pet and survive an unthinkable ordeal, while not detracting from the violence described in the article. Ayenaee (talk) 19:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed explanation, @Ayenaee. Sure, feel free to change the caption as you suggest.
 * As to the infobox image choice, I still think that the picture of Mia is less appropriate but I don't have strong feelings about it, let's hear from other editors what they think. Alaexis¿question? 20:48, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Move of Mia-Father-Bella (MFB) from main image to body
Hi Personisinsterest. Thanks for your edit swapping the MFB and burnt vehicle images. I don’t agree that a release of a hostage is not an inappropriate image for an attack related article. The hostages and their release are a major ongoing part of the attack. However, having said that if you read the section above, you’ll see that Alaexis and I had a discussion on exactly this issue a while ago. I added the vehicle image to the body because no one else commented for over a month. But you’re obviously not alone in your thinking. Can I ask you to review my justification for using the image as the main. If you agree or don’t feel strongly then please self-revert (or tell me you don’t mind if I do). If you still think that the vehicle image is the best that’s fine, just say so here and I’ll remove the MFB image because given the image of the mens’ release I don’t think the free-use justification applies or can be amended (one of the criteria is that there are no other free-use images, but the images of the men’s release are free use).

Body still in Gaza
Hi Zbase4, thanks for the edits you made on the article, Melman was a good catch. I’m confused about your deletion of the burial information for Tal Chaimi. I obviously want this to be correct. I also, thought his body was still in Gaza and this is what’s stated in the ToI article dated 13 December. But then I came across the pictures and text on the Getty site dated 15 December, showing and describing his burial. What have I misunderstood? Ayenaee (talk) 21:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Using this TimesofIsrael article it says the body is still held in Gaza and Chaimi is still listed as a hostage by Haaretz. Not sure why a funeral took place but it is possible to hold a funeral without having the remains, this has happened with Asaf Hamami and others whose bodies are held in Gaza.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/family-of-gaza-hostage-tal-chaimi-say-they-have-been-told-he-was-killed-on-oct-7/

https://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-explains/2023-10-22/ty-article-magazine/hostages-held-by-hamas-the-names-of-those-abducted-from-israel/0000018b-55f8-d5d2-afef-d5fdd04e0000

Zbase4 (talk) 21:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Ok. I did check at the time I made the edit if there was a religious tradition of burial without a body, but generally found info that said there isn’t. But you’re right that the Hamami funeral proves otherwise. Thanks for the edit and the education. Ayenaee (talk) 21:50, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

How is it a "war crime" or a "massacre" if all the Israelis killed were armed combatants?
Seems like these characterizations are a pretty glaring violation of the NPOV rule of wikipedia. Does anyone else want to chime in? 2607:FEA8:A4E5:6A00:A638:A5B1:3509:EAFC (talk) 04:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Exactly 2605:B100:D25:41B4:0:D:B8F9:9A01 (talk) 19:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Update "hostage"
israeli government confirmed that the last POW was eliminated during the battle, body missing.

Also was killed in battle according to the article, should be listed as combatant KIA 2605:B100:D25:41B4:0:D:B8F9:9A01 (talk) 19:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Updates completed. Ayenaee (talk) 23:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Edit request to section 'History of Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak'
This section is inadequate and incomplete, and as such exhibits a serious bias which whitewashes the narrative of all Zionist wrongdoing.

I would draw the editors' attention to the 2008 article by Uri Davis in Left Curve entitled In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword. The pdf version is available on Wayback Machine at  Dr Davis, a distinguished anthropologist, briefly describes how the kibbutz was established in 1946 (some three years prior to that asserted in the article), and that the region was conquered by the PALMACH and ethnically cleansed of Arabs in December 1948. The kibbutz took its name from Yitzhak Sadeh, an adopted name of a former Commander of the Palmach.

Also relevant to the history section is Dr Davis's description of Ariel Sharon's programme of ethnic cleansing in the Rafah district in 1971/2 in order to build additional Jewish settlements around Nir Yitzhak.

If you are going to have a history section it should be comprehensive. This is particularly important for this topic since many are trying to pretend that the 7 October 2023 attack had no historical precedent. Kombo the mzungu (talk) 17:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Uri Davis is a rather questionable source. At any rate, the right place to describe the history of the kibbutz in detail is the article about the kibbutz and not this one. Alaexis¿question? 18:03, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * CV from Uri Davis's official website:
 * Dr Davis is an Observer-Member of the Palestine National Council (PNC); member of the Middle East Regional Committee of the international journal Citizenship Studies; Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies (IMEIS), University of Durham and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter; Chairperson of AL-BEIT: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel and MAIAP: Movement Against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine; founding member and Senior Director for Legal and Political Affairs, Mosaic Communities: Multinational Housing Cooperative in Israel.
 * Comment from Alaexis:
 * Uri Davis is a rather questionable source.
 * How come?
 * Because he is not a Zionist?
 * Because his opinions (based on solid research) do not correspond with yours?
 * Or how? Please explain, with sources if appropriate.
 * Irrespective of what is the most appropriate place to describe the history of kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, the fact remains there is a section on the history of the kibbutz in this article that is inaccurate by omission and hence misleading. If you are proposing that the section be deleted, I can support your position. However while it remains it needs to be corrected so as to provide a fair and honest narrative. Kombo the mzungu (talk) 08:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * He is a high-ranking member of Fatah, that is, a politician. I'd be also against using a book written by an Israeli politician. The article was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, as far as I can see. Surely we can find better sources for the history of this kibbutz. Alaexis¿question? 21:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a question for when a better source with contradictory information is actually found. Until then, an honorary research fellow at two of the stronger universities for Middle Eastern Studies in the UK can readily speak. Iskandar323 (talk) 04:10, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * So now that Dr Cornel West is running for the US presidency does that mean he is now a rather questionable source on African American studies? If yes, please explain. If no, please reply. Kombo the mzungu (talk) 18:50, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * No idea, I'm not familiar with his works.
 * But what exactly do you want to add to the article? Alaexis¿question? 20:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * i) Kibbutz Nir Yitzhaq was established in 1946 and was originally called Nirim in Hebrew and Dangur in Arabic (after the Iraqi or Egyptian Arab-Jewish family who first bought the land). [Davis, Uri; "In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword"; Left Curve no. 32, 2008, p36; hyperlink https://web.archive.org/web/20101101042759/http://leftcurve.org/LC32WebPages/In%20Search%20of%20Abu%20Sitta%20Sward.UriDavis.pdf]
 * ii) The region around it was conquered by the Palmach in Operation Horev [Allon, Yigal (1970); "Shield of David the Story of Israel's Armed Forces"; Weidenfield & Nicolson, p215] and ethnically cleansed of Bedouin (who had been for the most part, sole residents of the Naqab) in December 1948. [Abu-Ras, Thabet; "Land Disputes in Israel: The Case of the Bedouin of the Naqab"; Adalah’s Newsletter, Volume 24, April 2006, p2; hyperlink https://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/newsletter/eng/apr06/ar2.pdf]
 * iii) The kibbutz took its current name from Yitzhak Sadeh [hyperlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Sadeh], the adopted name of the founder and former Commander of the Palmach, (who was born in Poland where he was given the name Izaak Landoberg).
 * iv) In 1971-1972 Ariel Sharon [hyperlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon], as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, instigated an ethnic cleansing of parts of the southern Gaza Strip. In March 1972, as part of this programme, 10,000 people from the Rafah area were dispossessed to make room for new Jewish settlements around Nir Yitzhaq. The International Committee of the Red Cross protested to IDF Chief of Staff David El'azar, to no avail. The officers responsible for these war crimes were Moshe Dayan [hyperlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan], Yitzhak Pundak [hyperlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Pundak] and Ariel Sharon. [Davis, Uri; "In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword"; Left Curve no. 32, 2008, p36; hyperlink https://web.archive.org/web/20101101042759/http://leftcurve.org/LC32WebPages/In%20Search%20of%20Abu%20Sitta%20Sward.UriDavis.pdf] Kombo the mzungu (talk) 22:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * i) This could be added to Nir Yitzhak article.
 * ii) I don't see any mention of Nir Yitzhak there so this is original research.
 * iii) It's already mentioned in Nir Yitzhak.
 * iv) Davis says "In March 1972 10,000 people from the Rafah area were dispossessed to make room for new Jewish settlements around Nir Yitzhaq." So this doesn't really tell us anything about the kibbutz. Assuming he talks about Gaza Strip settlements, this has nothing to do with Nir Yitzhak. The kibbutz didn't receive any land in the Gaza Strip. Alaexis¿question? 14:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)