Al-Mawasi

Al-Mawasi is a fertile area for agriculture in the . 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.
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  • 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.

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.

Ruins
was an Israeli settlement established in 2001 on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea west of in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the that existed until 2005.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khan Yunis Camp and Bani Suheila.

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 2½ km east of Al-Mawasi.

Town
is a municipality in the , in the of the State of Palestine. The town is located 2 km east of the city of Khan Younis. As of 2017, had a population of 41,439 people. is situated 6 km east of Al-Mawasi.

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 Al-Mawasi.

Al-Mawasi

Latitude
31.35507° or 31° 21′ 18″ north
Longitude
34.26109° or 34° 15′ 40″ east
Population
1,410
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
8G3P9746+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11408821425
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6968060
Wiki­data ID
Q4702878
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Satellite Map

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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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