Sheikh Ijlin (Arabic: الشيخ عجلين[1]) is a neighborhood in southern Gaza City near the coastal road.[2]
Sheikh Ijlin
الشيخ عجلين | |
|---|---|
Neighborhood | |
| Sheikh Ajleen | |
  Sheikh Ijlin Location in Gaza Strip | |
| Coordinates: 31°30′48.1″N 34°25′41.3″E / 31.513361°N 34.428139°E | |
| State |  Palestine |
| Governorate | Gaza Governorate |
| City | Gaza |
| Time zone | UTC 2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | 3 |
On 18 November 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the neighborhood, destroying the offices of the Preventive Security Force of the Palestinian National Authority.[3]
In December 2023 the New York Times reported that Israeli forces had carried out necroviolence by razing six cemeteries in the Gaza Strip including that of Sheikh Ijlin.[4]
References
edit- ^ from a personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, page 362
- ^ Israeli Occupying Forces Systematically Attack Civilian Property in Khan Yunis (Gaza Strip) Archived 2007-08-14 at the Wayback Machine Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem, 27 January 2005.
- ^ Khaled Amayreh. Expanding the settlements Archived 2009-08-09 at the Wayback Machine. Al-Ahram Weekly, 27 November 2002.
- ^ Koettl, Christoph; Triebert, Christiaan. "Satellite Imagery and Video Shows Some Gazan Cemeteries Razed by Israeli Forces". New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
Bibliography
edit- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (visit in 1863: p. 214)
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
edit- SWP map 19, IAA
- SWP map 19, Wikimedia commons
