The Muslim call to prayer drifting in from the other side of the army's lines is one of the few reminders of the settlement's location.
Residents compare their community to the best of small towns, where everyone knows each other and looks after each other's kids.
Children play soccer unsupervised and run through the neighborhood with their dogs in tow.
Attacks by Palestinian militants that regularly hit other Gaza settlements are rare here.
But on Oct. 2, 2001, two Palestinian militants breached the settlement's fence and killed Assaf Yitzhaki, 20, and his girlfriend, Liron Harpaz, 19.
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