Since the beginning of the Second Intifada, Dahaniya residents were banned from entering the Gaza Strip and carried weapons in the village from fear for their lives.
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Dahaniya (Arabic: دهنية) was a village near the southernmost point in the Gaza Strip, evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005.
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Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to leave the entire Gaza Strip, including the village of Dahaniya, meant that Israeli security forces would no longer be able to defend the residents from Palestinian militants.