Hamama
Sign in to saveHamama () 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 (c. 1270) until 1948.
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Hamama () 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 (c. 1270) until 1948.
The site had been previously inhabited from the Hellenistic through the Roman and Byzantine periods, flourishing during the latter. It has been suggested that the settlement there was the city known from sources by the Greek name of Peleia, but some are placing that city closer to Ascalon. The site has been used to build a new neighbourhood in the northern part of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, after undergoing a rescue dig.
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