Al-Mughraqa
Al-Mughraqa is a Palestinian town in the Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip, located six kilometers southwest of Gaza City.
Al-Mughraqa is a Palestinian town in the Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip, located six kilometers southwest of Gaza City. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), al-Mughraqa had a population of 11,458 in 2017. The town's alternate name, "Abu Middein" derives from the Bedouin Abu Middein tribe that inhabits the area, part of the larger al-Hanajreh tribal confederation.
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Worth seeing in and around Al-Mughraqa
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Palestine
The University of Palestine is a private university in Al-Zahra', Gaza Strip, Palestine. The university was established in 2005, making it one of Gaza's youngest higher education institutions.
1.1 km · private university in Palestina · Wikipedia - 02Tell el-'Ajjul
Tall al-Ajjul or Tell el-'Ajul is an archaeological mound or tell in the Gaza Strip. The fortified city excavated at the site dates as far back as ca.
500 m · archaeological site · Wikipedia - 03Gaza Zoo
The Gaza Zoo was a leisure complex, series of public gardens, children's amusement park and zoo in the Gaza Strip created by the government of Gaza in the spring of 2010 on government property that was formerly a garbage dump. It closed in 2016.
3.7 km · The Gaza Zoo was a leisure complex with series of public gardens. · Wikipedia - 04Tell es-Sakan
Tell es-Sakan is a mound created by the accumulation of the remains of consecutive settlements, located about 5 kilometres south of Gaza City in Palestine. This tell was the site of two separate Early Bronze Age urban settlements.
1 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia - 05Monastery of Seridus
The monastery of Seridus was a monastic community that flourished during the 6th and early 7th century in Palestine. Founded by Seridus of Gaza after whom the monastery was later named, it housed in the first half of the sixth century the well-known hermits Barsanuphius and John the Prophet who attracted many visitors.
2.7 km · ancient monastery in the region of Gaza · Wikipedia - 06al-Moghraqa
Al-Moghraqa is a Bronze Age former settlement in Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip in Palestine. It was discovered in 1996 in the town of Al-Mughraqa and investigated in 1999 and 2000 as part of the Gaza Research Project.
800 m · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia - 07Taur Ikhbeineh
Taur Ikhbeineh was a prehistoric settlement in what is today the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It was inhabited in the 4th millennium BC. Though the settlement was abandoned, there were burials at Taur Ikhbeineh in the late 3rd or early 2nd millennium BC. Excavations in the 20th century provided evidence of interactions between Canaanite and Egyptian people.
1.6 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia - 08Tell es-Sanam
Tell es-Sanam is a tell near the Mediterranean coast of the Gaza Strip in Palestine. It is located on the bank of the Wadi Ghazzeh, near the point where the watercourse meets the Mediterranean Sea.
2.5 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Al-Mughraqa
- Airports
- El Arish (AAC), 72 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 75 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 153 km
- El Arish → Al-Mughraqa70 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · E£285–380
- Port Said → Al-Mughraqa202 km · quickest by road, 7h 15m · E£560–750
- Cairo → Al-Mughraqa340 km · quickest by road, 8h 41m · E£640–860
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Al-Mughraqa
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al-Mughraqa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe closest non-Israeli commercial airports are Jordan's Queen Alia International Airport () and King Hussein International Airport (), while the closest Egyptian-controlled airport with non-charter commercial service is Cairo International Airport ().
- Get inTaba International Airport () is closer than Cairo, but only charter flights fly there.
- Get inIf you take the tuk-tuk, keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times and enjoy the ride.
- Get inOnce you get your passport back, take the tuk-tuk if possible, or begin the 1 km+ walk to Israel.
- Get aroundResidents and aid workers primarily get around by walking long distances or utilizing animal-drawn carts, such as donkey and horse carts, which have become the primary mode of moving both people and essential supplies.
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Next door to Al-Mughraqa
Al-Mughraqa is 7 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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