Back المواصي (رفح) Arabic المواصى ARZ Al-Mawasi Catalan Al-Mawasi German Al-Mawasi Spanish Al-Mawāsī Estonian المواصی Persian Al-Mawasi French אל-מוואסי HE Al-Mawasi ID
Al-Mawasi | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | المواصي |
  Al-Mawasi Location of Al-Mawasi within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°19′44″N 34°13′48″E / 31.32889°N 34.23000°E | |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Rafah |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 9,000 |
Al-Mawasi (Arabic: المواصي) is a fertile area for agriculture in the Gaza Strip.[1] It is along the coast and has many sand dunes.[2] Al-Mawasi is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip.[3][2] It is a Palestinian Bedouin town and prior to the 2005 unilateral Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, it was a Palestinian enclave within the Israeli settlements of Gush Katif. Al-Mawasi had a population of 1,409 in the middle of 2006.[3] Prior to the Israel–Hamas war, al-Mawasi had a population of 9,000. It has a number of buildings with a maximum of 100 structures.[2]
- ^ Roskin, Joel; Taxel, Itamar (2021-09-01). ""He who revives dead land": groundwater harvesting agroecosystems in sand along the southeastern Mediterranean coast since early medieval times". Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews. 3 (3): 293–318. doi:10.1007/s42990-021-00058-5. ISSN 2661-8648.
- ^ a b c Al-Mughrabi, Nidal (September 10, 2024). "Gaza's Al-Mawasi: What is the 'humanitarian zone' struck by Israel's military?". Reuters.
- ^ a b "Al-Mawasi area". United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2024-11-16.