Bnei Atzmon
Bnei Atzmon was an Israeli settlement previously in the Sinai Peninsula, later moved to the Gaza Strip before being destroyed in 2005.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bedolah and Pe’at Sade.
Bedolah
Ruins
Photo: Israel Defense Forces, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bedolah was an Israeli settlement and army base in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the southwest edge of the Gaza Strip. Home to 220 religious Jews, its inhabitants were evicted, its houses demolished, and its land surrendered to the Palestinian National Authority as part of Israel's disengagement of 2005. Bedolah is situated 1 km northeast of Bnei Atzmon.
Pe’at Sade
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pe'at Sadeh was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip that existed until 2005. Pe’at Sade is situated 1¼ km northwest of Bnei Atzmon.
Gadid
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gadid was an Israeli settlement and Moshav located in the middle of the Gush Katif settlement bloc whose residents were expelled in Israel's disengagement of 2005. Gadid is situated 3½ km northeast of Bnei Atzmon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Al-Mawasi.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, 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. Canada Camp is situated 3½ km south of Bnei Atzmon.
Al-Mawasi
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
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 4 km north of Bnei Atzmon.
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 5 km northeast of Bnei Atzmon.
Bnei Atzmon
- Type: Ruins
- Description: former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip
- Categories: Israeli settlement, moshav, and historic site
- Location: Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.32147° or 31° 19′ 17″ northLongitude
34.25159° or 34° 15′ 6″ eastPopulation
646Open location code
8G3P87C2+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 505134642OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q2910044
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Bnei Atzmon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بني عصمون”
- Czech: “Bnei Atzmon”
- Czech: “Bnej Acmon”
- Dutch: “Bnei Atzmon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنى عصمون”
- French: “Bnei Atzmon”
- German: “Bnei Atzmon”
- Hebrew: “בני עצמון”
- Hebrew: “עצמונה”
- Persian: “بنی عصمون”
- Russian: “Бней-Ацмон”
- Spanish: “Bnei Atzmon”
- Turkish: “Bney Atzmon”
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