Juhor ad-Dik
Juhor ad-Dik is a Palestinian farming village in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip.
Juhor ad-Dik is a Palestinian farming village in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 4,586 inhabitants in 2017. This area was controlled by Israel during Gaza war. In May, 2024, the Washington Post reported that the village had been destroyed in order to construct the Netzarim Corridor.
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Worth seeing in and around Juhor ad-Dik
6 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.
- 01Tell el-'Ajjul
Tall al-Ajjul or Tell el-'Ajul is an archaeological mound or tell in the Gaza Strip. The fortified city excavated at the site dates as far back as ca.
3.6 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia - 02Gaza Zoo
The Gaza Zoo was a leisure complex, series of public gardens, children's amusement park and zoo in the Gaza Strip created by the government of Gaza in the spring of 2010 on government property that was formerly a garbage dump. It closed in 2016.
2.6 km · The Gaza Zoo was a leisure complex with series of public gardens. · Wikipedia - 03Tell es-Sakan
Tell es-Sakan is a mound created by the accumulation of the remains of consecutive settlements, located about 5 kilometres south of Gaza City in Palestine. This tell was the site of two separate Early Bronze Age urban settlements.
4 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia - 04The Anzac Memorial
The Anzac Memorial is a monument in Be'eri Forest, Negev, Israel, to the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand armies who were killed in Palestine during the First Battle of Gaza and Second Battle of Gaza of World War I.
2.3 km · WWI memorial in Israel · Wikipedia - 05al-Moghraqa
Al-Moghraqa is a Bronze Age former settlement in Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip in Palestine. It was discovered in 1996 in the town of Al-Mughraqa and investigated in 1999 and 2000 as part of the Gaza Research Project.
2.9 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia - 06Taur Ikhbeineh
Taur Ikhbeineh was a prehistoric settlement in what is today the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It was inhabited in the 4th millennium BC. Though the settlement was abandoned, there were burials at Taur Ikhbeineh in the late 3rd or early 2nd millennium BC. Excavations in the 20th century provided evidence of interactions between Canaanite and Egyptian people.
2.5 km · archaeological site in Palestine · Wikipedia
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Getting to Juhor ad-Dik
- Airports
- El Arish (AAC), 73 km · Ben Gurion (TLV), 75 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 150 km
- El Arish → Juhor ad-Dik161 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · E£375–500
- Port Said → Juhor ad-Dik1698 km · quickest by air, 9h 40m · E£11,490–17,670
- Cairo → Juhor ad-Dik1765 km · quickest by air, 10h · E£11,940–18,360
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No local-transport research exists yet for Juhor ad-Dik
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 Juhor ad-Dik. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe closest non-Israeli commercial airports are Jordan's Queen Alia International Airport () and King Hussein International Airport (), while the closest Egyptian-controlled airport with non-charter commercial service is Cairo International Airport ().
- Get inTaba International Airport () is closer than Cairo, but only charter flights fly there.
- Get inIf you take the tuk-tuk, keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times and enjoy the ride.
- Get inOnce you get your passport back, take the tuk-tuk if possible, or begin the 1 km+ walk to Israel.
- Get aroundResidents and aid workers primarily get around by walking long distances or utilizing animal-drawn carts, such as donkey and horse carts, which have become the primary mode of moving both people and essential supplies.
From Wikivoyage: Gaza Strip, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Juhor ad-Dik
Juhor ad-Dik is 6 km from Gaza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Al-Mughraqavillage in Gaza strip3.1 km