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Nablus

[ US /ˈnæbɫəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an ancient city in the West Bank to the north of Jerusalem; the home of Jacob in biblical times

How To Use Nablus In A Sentence

  • One of the properties comprised five thousand dunums of land owned by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem near Nablus.
  • Bringing law and order to the mean streets of Nablus is a win-win situation for the Palestinian Authority.
  • After doing their time at the Hawara checkpoint, Omer and his company spent a few high-adrenaline months in Nablus, a city roiling with politics and rebellion, which the Israelis considered to be a major source of terrorism. The Checkpoint
  • The IDF later announced that there had been no captures, though its soldiers remained in and around Nablus and the adjacent refugee camps.
  • A 14-year-old boy, Husam Abdu, trying to cross the Hawarah checkpoint near Nablus, was found to be wearing a vest filled with explosives ready for detonation.
  • The road into Nablus circuits the gaping carcasses of buildings that, I am told, have been destroyed by tanks; the road itself is cracked by the passage of heavily armoured tanks.
  • He was her youngest and favorite son who had dropped out of school to work as a computer technician in Nablus to help support his family and thus was so endeared to her. Young Buddies Become Accidental Martyrs
  • The locals, he explains, have just played the team from the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
  • Despite the hardships, Lynch, a devout Catholic, was stirred by the biblical locales they passed—the ford of Bethabara, where John had baptized Jesus; Nablus, where Yahweh had confirmed his covenant with Abraham; Jericho, of the tumbling walls, where Jesus had healed two blind beggars; and Mount Nebo, where Moses had been granted his bittersweet glimpse of the Promised Land. Old Salt, Dead Sea
  • A hawkishly handsome man of seventy-one, al-Masri was born in Nablus and graduated from the University of Texas. In a Ruined Country
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