Bani Suheila
Bani Suheila is a municipality in the Gaza Strip, in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the State of Palestine. The town is located 2 km east of the city of Khan Younis. As of 2017, Bani Suheila had a population of 41,439 people.- Type: Locality with 31,300 residents
- Description: city in the Palestinian National Authority
- Also known as: “Banī Suhayl”, “Bani Suhayla”, “Banī Suhaylā”, and “Banī Suhaylah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Katif.
Katif
Ruins
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Katif was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip, about 1 km north of the Palestinian refugee camp of Deir al-Balah Camp. Katif is situated 4 km north of Bani Suheila.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khan Yunis Camp and Al-Qarara.
Khan Yunis Camp
Suburb
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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 3½ km west of Bani Suheila.
Al-Qarara
Town
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Al-Qarara is a Palestinian town in the Khan Yunis Governorate of the Gaza Strip. It is located just north of Khan Yunis and approximately 24 kilometres south of Gaza City. Al-Qarara is situated 4 km north of Bani Suheila.
Al-Mawasi
Village
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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 6 km west of Bani Suheila.
Bani Suheila
- Categories: city, human settlement, and Municipality of Palestine type A
- Location: Khan Yunis Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bani Suheila” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بنى سهيلا”
- Arabic: “بنى سيلا”
- Arabic: “بني سهيلا”
- Arabic: “بني سهيلى”
- Asturian: “Bani Suheila”
- Basque: “Bani Suheila”
- Catalan: “Bani Suheila”
- Cebuano: “Banī Suhaylā”
- Central Kurdish: “بەنی سوھەیلا”
- Czech: “Baní Suhajla”
- Czech: “Baní Suhajlá”
- Dutch: “Bani Suheila”
- Finnish: “Bani Suhaila”
- French: “Bani Suheila”
- German: “Bani Suhaila”
- German: “Bani Suheila”
- Hebrew: “בני סוהילה”
- Italian: “Bani Suheila”
- Japanese: “バニ・スヘイラ”
- Korean: “바니수헤일라”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bani Suheila”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bani Suheila”
- Norwegian: “Bani Suheila”
- Persian: “بنی سهیلا”
- Polish: “Bani Suhajla”
- Russian: “Бани-Сухайла”
- Scots: “Bani Suheila”
- Spanish: “Bani Suheila”
- Turkish: “Bani Süheyla”
- Urdu: “بنی سہیلہ”
- Welsh: “Bani Suheila”
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