Az-Zawayda

Az-Zawayda, also spelled Zawaida, is a Palestinian town in the , in the of the State of Palestine. It is located about three kilometers northeast of the city of and just west of Maghazi refugee camp.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Town with 23,800 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Gaza Strip
  • Also known as: “Al Zawaida” and “Az Zuwāydah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Deir El Belah War Cemetery and Kfar Darom.

Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Deir El Balah War Cemetery was established in March 1917. After the Armistice of Mudros ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in the First World War, some graves were relocated from nearby to the Deir El Balah War Cemetery.

Ruins
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was a kibbutz and an Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the . is situated 3 km south of Az-Zawayda.

Military installation
The is a demarcation line that has divided the in two since the October 2025 implementation of the Gaza peace plan intended to end the Gaza war. is situated 3½ km southeast of Az-Zawayda.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Musaddar and Deir el-Balah.

Village
is a Palestinian village in the central , part of the east of , south of the Maghazi refugee camp and west of the border with .

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Deir al-Balah is a city in the center of the , , and the administrative capital of the . It is located over 14 kilometers south of .

Suburb
Maghazi is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the in the central . It was established in 1949. The camp is built on 559 dunums.

Az-Zawayda

Latitude
31.42804° or 31° 25′ 41″ north
Longitude
34.3653° or 34° 21′ 55″ east
Population
23,800
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Open location code
8G3PC9H8+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 776438083
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7870299
Wiki­data ID
Q59623
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Az-Zawayda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الزوايدة”
  • Arabic: “الزوايده”
  • Asturian: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Basque: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Catalan: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Cebuano: “Az Zuwāydah”
  • Central Kurdish: “زەوایدە”
  • Chinese: “阿兹扎韦达”
  • Dutch: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الزوايده”
  • French: “Az Zawâydah”
  • French: “Az-Zawayda”
  • French: “Zawaida”
  • Hebrew: “א-זאוואידה”
  • Hebrew: “א-זוואידה”
  • Hindi: “अज़-ज़वैदा”
  • Indonesian: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Japanese: “アズ・ザワイダ”
  • Japanese: “アッ・ザワーイダ”
  • Korean: “아즈자와이다”
  • Korean: “알자와이다”
  • Korean: “앗 자와이다”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Persian: “الزوایده”
  • Polish: “Az-Zawajda”
  • Russian: “Аль-Завайда”
  • Spanish: “Az-Zawayda”
  • Urdu: “الزوایدہ”
  • Uzbek: “Az-Zavayda”

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