Megiddo

[muh-gid-oh]

noun

1. an ancient city in N Israel, on the plain of Esdraelon: site of many battles; often identified with the Biblical Armageddon.

Megiddo

/ məˈɡɪdəʊ /

noun

1. an ancient town in N Palestine, strategically located on a route linking Egypt to Mesopotamia: site of many battles, including an important Egyptian victory over rebel chieftains in 1469 or 1468 _bc See also Armageddon

Example Sentences

Another of our interviewees, Ahmed Abu Seif, said he was taken to a different prison - Megiddo, near the occupied West Bank, after being arrested on his 17th birthday.

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Mr Khourieh was held at the Megiddo prison in northern Israel for 10 days last November.

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“They just lost their mind,” he says of the scenes he witnessed at Megiddo.

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Several months after Mr Khourieh’s release – again, without charge – the lawyer is still struggling to make sense of what he witnessed at Megiddo.

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He was taken into administrative detention - under which Israel can hold people indefinitely without charge - in Megiddo prison.

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