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Burayr

Burayr also spelled Bureir, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, 18 kilometers (11 mi) northeast of Gaza City.

Burayr
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Burayr also spelled Bureir, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, 18 kilometers (11 mi) northeast of Gaza City. Its population in 1945 was 2,740. The village was the site of a massacre and it was depopulated and destroyed during the 1948 Palestine war as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight. It had an average elevation of 100 meters (330 ft).

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Getting to Burayr

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 54 km · El Arish (AAC), 96 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 129 km
  • Tel Aviv → Burayr
    2200 km · quickest by road, 50h 56m · ₪1,050–1,400
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  • Eilat → Burayr
    1940 km · quickest by road, 48h 6m · ₪1,010–1,340
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  • Amman → Burayr
    2224 km · quickest by road, 52h 45m · JD125–165
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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 Burayr. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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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  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

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  4. 04
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    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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  5. 05
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    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

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Next door to Burayr

Burayr is 18 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hulayqatvillage in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine3.2 km
  • Heletzhuman settlement in Israel1.8 km
  • Simsim, Gazavillage in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine3.3 km
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