Place in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine

Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict.

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The field note

What is in and around Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya has

YScheduled flightsTel Aviv (TLV), 38 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Kiryat Gat, 11 km.

31.700°, 34.712°

It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 18, 1948, as part of the second stage of Operation Barak. The village was located 32 km northeast of Gaza. It is one of three namesake villages, alongside Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya and Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya.

How locals move

Getting around Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya the local way

Get aroundBy bus, taxi ("moneet" in Hebrew), or minibus ("moneet sherut").

From Wikivoyage: Ashdod, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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