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Hiribya

Hirbiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) northeast of Gaza along the southern coastal plain of Palestine.

The place

Hirbiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) northeast of Gaza along the southern coastal plain of Palestine. Situated where the Battle of La Forbie took place in 1244, it was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hiribya

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 55 km · El Arish (AAC), 92 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 138 km
  • Tel Aviv → Hiribya
    7 km · quickest by road, 26 min · ₪3.5–4.5
  • Eilat → Hiribya
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • El Arish → Hiribya
    9165 km · quickest by air, 19h 53m · E£66,140–97,030
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hiribya

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 Hiribya. 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    168 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    241 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    681 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,030 km

If you know how people move in Hiribya – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hiribya

Hiribya is 14 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barbara, GazaPalestinian village in Gaza subdistrict, depopulated in 19483.7 km
  • Dayr Sunaydvillage in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine3.6 km
  • Mavki'imhuman settlement in Israel3.5 km
  • Bayt Jirjadepopulated Palestinian village in Gaza subdistrict3.3 km