Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip

Beit Hanoun

Beit Hanoun or Beit Hanun is a destroyed and depopulated Palestinian city on the northeast edge of the Gaza Strip.

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Every way there

Tel Aviv → Beit Hanoun
65 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · ₪24–32
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Eilat → Beit Hanoun
224 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · ₪95–125
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El Arish → Beit Hanoun
82 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · E£285–380
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Beit Hanoun, 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 Beit Hanoun has

YScheduled flightsTel Aviv (TLV), 62 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: Bayt Lāhyā, 4 km.

31.539°, 34.537°

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 52,237 in 2017. As a result of the ongoing Gaza war, the area of Beit Hanoun has been militarily contested between the Hamas administration and Israel. The remains of Beit Hanoun are located by the Nahal-Hanun stream, 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) away from the Israeli city of Sderot.

How locals move

Getting around Beit Hanoun the local way

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. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: David Berkowitz from New York, NY, USA (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.