Gan Or
Gan Or 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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bedolah and Pe’at Sade.
Bedolah
Ruins
Photo: Israel Defense Forces, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bedolah was an Israeli settlement and army base in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the southwest edge of the Gaza Strip. 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.
Pe’at Sade
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pe'at Sadeh was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip that existed until 2005.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Mawasi and Khan Yunis Camp.
Al-Mawasi
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
Al-Mawasi is a fertile area for agriculture in the Gaza Strip. It is along the coast and has many sand dunes. Al-Mawasi is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip. Al-Mawasi is situated 2½ km northeast of Gan Or.
Khan Yunis Camp
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
The Khan Yunis refugee camp, also called Khan Yunis Camp, is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Khan Yunis Governorate just west of the city of Khan Yunis and two kilometers east of the Mediterranean coast in the southern Gaza Strip. Khan Yunis Camp is situated 4 km northeast of Gan Or.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, 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. Canada Camp is situated 4½ km south of Gan Or.
Gan Or
- Type: Destroyed locality with 300 residents
- Description: former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip
- Categories: Israeli settlement and moshav
- Location: Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Gan Or” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جان أور”
- Czech: “Gan Or”
- Dutch: “Gan Or”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جان اور”
- French: “Gan Or”
- Hebrew: “גן אור”
- Persian: “گان اور”
- Russian: “Ган-Ор”
- Turkish: “Gan Or”
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