Al-Mawasi
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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
- Type: Village with 1,410 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Rafah, Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip
- Also known as: “Al Mawasi” and “Al-Mawasi, Rafah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kfar Yam and Neve Dekalim.
Kfar Yam
Ruins
Kfar Yam, sometimes spelled Kefar Yam or Kfar Hayam in English, was a small non-religious community established in 1983 and populated by four families.
Neve Dekalim
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Neve Dekalim was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip. 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.
Shirat HaYam
Ruins
Shirat HaYam was an Israeli settlement established in 2001 on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea west of Neve Dekalim in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip that existed until 2005.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khan Yunis Camp and Khan Yunis.
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 2½ km east of Al-Mawasi.
Khan Yunis
Town
Photo: Dans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khan Yunis, also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus, is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and serves as the capital of the Khan Yunis Governorate. Khan Yunis is situated 5 km east of Al-Mawasi.
Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tel al-Sultan or Tall as-Sultan is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate just north of Rafah city and Rafah Camp. Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp is situated 5 km south of Al-Mawasi.
Al-Mawasi
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.35507° or 31° 21′ 18″ northLongitude
34.26109° or 34° 15′ 40″ eastPopulation
1,410Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
8G3P9746+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 11408821425OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6968060Wikidata ID
Q4702878
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Satellite Map
Discover Al-Mawasi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Al-Mawasi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المواصي”
- Arabic: “رفح”
- Arabic: “مواصي رفح”
- Asturian: “Al-Mawasi”
- Avaric: “Al Mawāşī”
- Avaric: “Rafaḩ”
- Bavarian: “Al-Mawasi”
- Catalan: “Al-Mawasi”
- Chinese: “馬瓦西”
- Chinese: “马瓦西”
- Dutch: “Al-Mawasi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المواصى”
- Estonian: “Al-Mawasi”
- Estonian: “Al-Mawāsī”
- French: “Al-Mawasi”
- German: “Al-Mawasi”
- Hebrew: “אל-מוואסי”
- Hebrew: “אל-מַוַ֫ואסִי”
- Indonesian: “Al-Mawasi”
- Japanese: “アル・マワシ”
- Japanese: “アル・モワシ”
- Japanese: “アル=マワシ”
- Japanese: “アル=マワシ”
- Japanese: “アル=モワシ”
- Japanese: “アルマワシ”
- Japanese: “アルモワシ”
- Japanese: “エル・モワシ”
- Japanese: “マワシ”
- Japanese: “モワシ”
- Korean: “알마와시”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Mawasi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Mawasi”
- Norwegian: “Al-Mawasi”
- Persian: “المواسی”
- Persian: “المواصی”
- Portuguese: “Al-Mawasi, Rafah”
- Portuguese: “Al-Mawasi”
- Spanish: “Al-Mawasi”
- Thai: “อัลมะวาศี”
- Uzbek: “Al-Mavasi (Rafah)”
- Uzbek: “Al-Mavasiy”
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