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Izbat Beit Hanoun

Izbat Beit Hanoun is a Palestinian village in the North Gaza Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the Gaza Strip.

The place

Izbat Beit Hanoun is a Palestinian village in the North Gaza Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the Gaza Strip. It is located between Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, about 2 km (1.2 mi) south of the barrier between North Gaza and Israel. The closest border crossing is Erez Crossing. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Izbat Beit Hanoun had a population of 7,383 in mid-2006.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Izbat Beit Hanoun

2 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.

  1. 01
    Umm al-Naser Mosque

    The Umm al-Nasr Mosque, also known as the Beit Hanoun Mosque, is the oldest mosque in the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the center of the city and was built in 1239 CE. The mosque was heavily damaged in the 2006 Israeli operation in Beit Hanoun and the Gaza war.

    1.5 km · mosque in Gaza Strip, Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Byzantine Church of Jabalia

    The Byzantine Church of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, which today is the remains of a Christian basilica church, includes graves and mosaic floors surrounded by marble columns on an area of 850 square metres, including 400 square metres paved with mosaics. The church was established in the 5th century and was used until the 8th century.

    3.4 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Izbat Beit Hanoun

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 62 km · El Arish (AAC), 86 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 141 km
  • Tel Aviv → Izbat Beit Hanoun
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · ₪24–32
  • Eilat → Izbat Beit Hanoun
    224 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · ₪95–125
  • El Arish → Izbat Beit Hanoun
    82 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · E£285–380
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Izbat Beit Hanoun

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 Izbat Beit Hanoun. 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

    163 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    236 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    339 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    685 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,032 km

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

Around it

Next door to Izbat Beit Hanoun

Izbat Beit Hanoun is 7 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.