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Kefar Yam

Kefar Yam is a destroyed locality in , . Kefar Yam is situated nearby to the village , as well as near the destroyed locality .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kfar Yam and Gan Or.

Ruins
, sometimes spelled Kefar Yam or Kfar Hayam in English, was a small non-religious community established in 1983 and populated by four families.

Ruins
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was an Israeli settlement located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005. On the day of its evacuation 52 families, over 320 people, lived there.

Ruins
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was an Israeli settlement in the . Comprising a part of Gush Katif, it was founded in 1983, shortly after Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula to fulfill the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. is situated 2½ km east of Kefar Yam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Mawasi and Khan Yunis Camp.

Village
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is a fertile area for agriculture in the . It is along the coast and has many sand dunes. is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip.

Suburb
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The Khan Yunis refugee camp, also called , is a Palestinian refugee camp in the just west of the city of and two kilometers east of the Mediterranean coast in the southern . is situated 3½ km east of Kefar Yam.

Suburb
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Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the just north of city and . is situated 4½ km south of Kefar Yam.

Kefar Yam

Latitude
31.35° or 31° 21′ north
Longitude
34.25° or 34° 15′ east
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
8G3P87X2+X2
Geo­Names ID
281125
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Localities in the Area

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