Sheikh Ijlin () is a neighborhood in southern
Gaza City
Gaza City, also called Gaza, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, southwest of Jerusalem, it was home to Port of Gaza, Palestine's only port. With a population of ...
near the coastal road.
On 18 November 2002, the
Israeli Defense Forces
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(IDF) attacked the neighborhood, destroying the offices of the
Preventive Security Force of the
Palestinian National Authority
The Palestinian Authority (PA), officially known as the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a c ...
.
With no sewage leakage into the open ocean after an 2022 internationally-backed sewage cleanup, the neighborhood's beaches became popular in Gaza City.
In December 2023 the ''
New York Times
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'' reported that Israel had carried out
necroviolence by razing six cemeteries in the
Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...
including that of Sheikh Ijlin.
References
Bibliography
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External links
SWP map 19 IAA
SWP map 19 Wikimedia commons
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Neighborhoods of Gaza City