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Huj, Gaza

Huj was a Palestinian Arab village located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) northeast of Gaza City.

Huj, Gaza
Huj, Gaza · American Colony Jerusalem
The place

Huj was a Palestinian Arab village located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) northeast of Gaza City. Identified as the site of the ancient Philistine town of Oga, the modern village was founded by the Ottomans in the early 19th century.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Huj, Gaza

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Sapir Academic College

    Sapir College is a college in Israel, located in the northwestern Negev desert near Sderot. It is one of Israel’s largest public colleges and the largest employer in the Gaza Envelope region.

    2.6 km · college in Israel · Wikipedia

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Getting to Huj, Gaza

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 61 km · El Arish (AAC), 91 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 132 km
  • Tel Aviv → Huj, Gaza
    2295 km · quickest by air, 12h 29m · ₪1,540–2,370
  • Eilat → Huj, Gaza
    2532 km · quickest by road, 60h 6m · ₪1,220–1,620
  • El Arish → Huj, Gaza
    2326 km · quickest by air, 10h 26m · E£11,500–17,820
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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 Huj, Gaza. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Next door to Huj, Gaza

Huj, Gaza is 15 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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