Deir El Belah War Cemetery

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.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Hilarion Monastery and Kfar Darom.

Archaeological site
Photo: RIZEK ABDELJAWAD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was an ancient Christian monastery in . The ruins are part of the archaeological site of Tell Umm el-'Amr, and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is close to in the . is situated 2½ km north of Deir El Belah 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 southwest of Deir El Belah War Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Az-Zawayda and Al-Musaddar.

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.

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 .

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.

Deir El Belah War Cemetery

Latitude
31.42542° or 31° 25′ 32″ north
Longitude
34.37408° or 34° 22′ 27″ east
Open location code
8G3PC9GF+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 686134744
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Wiki­data ID
Q63344888
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Deir El Belah War Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة دير البلح الحربية”
  • Persian: “گورستان جنگی دیر البلح”
  • Turkish: “Deyr El-Balah Savaş Mezarlığı”

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Highlights include Caramela Co. and Abu Abdullah Al-Aidy.

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