Kefar Yam

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

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kfar Yam and Neve Dekalim.

Ruins
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, 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 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.

Ruins
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was an Israeli settlement and army base in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the southwest edge of the . Home to 220 religious Jews, its inhabitants were evicted, its houses demolished, and its land surrendered to the Palestinian National Authority as part of Israel's disengagement of 2005.

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.

Locality
was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern near , formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location. is situated 7 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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