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deif

(diːf)
adj
a Scot word for deaf
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"Deif asked me to say that Tel Aviv and Gush Dan are next.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Idlibbased activist Mohammed al-Sayid said members of the al Qaida-linked Nusra Front and other rebel factions captured the Wadi Deif base this morning and the nearby Hamidiyeh base in the early afternoon.
The Rafah attack came just a day after an apparent Israeli attempt to kill the top Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City.
In Gaza, one of those pulled from the rubble Thursday was Sara Deif, the 5-year-old daughter of Mohammed Deif, the top Hamas military leader who was apparently the target of an airstrike on a three-story home in Gaza City late Tuesday.
Late on Tuesday, the Israeli air force bombed a house in northern Gaza, an attempt, Hamas said, to assassinate Mohammed Deif, its top military commander.
The latest attacks came a day after an apparent assassination attempt on Mohammed Deif, the Hamas chief suspected of master-minding bombings and kidnaps.
At a news conference on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to say whether Israel had tried to kill Deif, but said militant leaders were legitimate targets and that "none are immune" from attack.
Among the dead were the wife and infant son of Hamas military chief Mohammad Deif, killed when a strike demolished a six-storey house in Gaza City, spokesman Ashraf Al Qedra said.
Commander Mohammed Deif 's seven-month-old boy was among four children killed during the blitz on Palestine.