Al-Muharraqa
Vanished settlement · Israel
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 580
- Coordinates
- 31.467, 34.611
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: Al-Muharraqa was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
History
Al-Muharraqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 14.5 kilometers (9.0 mi) east of Gaza city. The village laid on rolling terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine, on a bend in the wadi. It had an elevation of 125 meters (410 ft) and a total land area of 4,855 dunams, most of which was public property, while its built-up area of 29 dunams was Arab-owned. Al-Muharraqa was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.