Barbara, Gaza
Barbara was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict located 17 km northeast of Gaza city, in the vicinity of modern Ashkelon.
Barbara was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict located 17 km northeast of Gaza city, in the vicinity of modern Ashkelon. It had an entirely Arab population of 2,410 in 1945. The village consisted of nearly 14,000 dunums of which approximately 12,700 dunums was able to be cultivated. It was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Getting to Barbara, Gaza
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 52 km · El Arish (AAC), 95 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 134 km
- Tel Aviv → Barbara, Gaza65 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · ₪24–32
- Eilat → Barbara, Gaza225 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · ₪95–125
- El Arish → Barbara, Gaza81 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · E£290–385
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No local-transport research exists yet for Barbara, Gaza
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 Barbara, Gaza. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are no ferries or cruises to Ashkelon, but you can bring your own boat into the marina.
From Wikivoyage: Ashkelon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Barbara, Gaza
Barbara, Gaza is 17 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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