Al Maghazi Refugee Camp

Maghazi is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the in the central . It was established in 1949. The camp is built on 559 dunums.
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  • Type: Suburb with 24,000 residents
  • Description: Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza Strip
  • Also known as: “Maghazi”, “Maghazi Camp”, and “Maghazi refugee camp”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Deir El Belah War Cemetery and Yellow Line.

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.

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.

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 3½ km southwest of Al Maghazi Refugee Camp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Musaddar and Az-Zawayda.

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
, 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.

Suburb
Photo: שועל, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the central east of the Salah al-Din Road in the . The camp's total land area is 529 dunums and in 2017, it had a population of 28,024 with 28,770 registered refugees.

Al Maghazi Refugee Camp

Latitude
31.42272° or 31° 25′ 22″ north
Longitude
34.38641° or 34° 23′ 11″ east
Population
24,000
Operator
UNRWA
Open location code
8G3PC9FP+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 505028762
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­refugee_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q3079750
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Satellite Map

Discover Al Maghazi Refugee Camp from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Al Maghazi Refugee Camp” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المغازي”
  • Arabic: “مخيم المغازي للاجئين”
  • Arabic: “مخيم المغازي”
  • Catalan: “Camp de Maghazi”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەمپی مەغازی”
  • Chinese: “马加齐”
  • Czech: “Maghází”
  • Finnish: “Al-Maghazin pakolaisleiri”
  • French: “Al Maghazi”
  • French: “Maghazi”
  • German: “Maghazi”
  • Hebrew: “אל-מוע’זי”
  • Hebrew: “מועזי”
  • Hebrew: “מע’אזי”
  • Indonesian: “Maghazi”
  • Japanese: “マガジ”
  • Japanese: “マガジ難民キャンプ”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه پناهندگان مغازی”
  • Polish: “Al-Magazi”
  • Polish: “Al-Maghazi”
  • Polish: “Muchajjam al-Maghazi”
  • Russian: “Магази”
  • Slovenian: “Magazi”
  • Spanish: “Campamento de Maghazi”
  • Turkish: “Magazi Mülteci Kampı”
  • Urdu: “مغازی پناہ گزین کیمپ”

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