Hamama
Hamama
حمامة Hamameh | |
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People of Hamama with Governor Aref al Aref and the 2nd
Earl of Oxford and Asquith, in 1943 | |
| Etymology: "dove" | |
A series of historical maps of the area around Hamama (click the buttons) | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°41′35″N 34°35′32″E / 31.69306°N 34.59222°E | |
| Palestine grid | 111/122 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Date of depopulation | 4 November 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 41,366 dunams (41.4 km2 or 16.0 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 5,070 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Nitzanim, Beit Ezra, Eshkolot |
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Hamama (Arabic: حمامة; also known in Byzantine times as Peleia) was a Palestinian town of over 5,000 inhabitants that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 24 kilometers north of Gaza. It was continuously inhabited from the Mamluk period (in the 13th century) until 1948.
Its ruins are today in the north of the Israeli city of Ashkelon.