Kawfakha
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- Locality
- מועצה אזורית מרחבים
- Region
- מחוז הדרום
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 686
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Gaza Subdistrict
- Population
- 317
- Area
- 8569
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- אבישי טייכר 085.jpg
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- Ottoman era
- British mandate era
- 1948 and after
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Kawfakha' () was a Palestinian village located east of Gaza that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
==Location== The village stood on a stretch of sandy, rolling land in the northern Negev. A network of secondary roads linked it to the highways between Gaza and Julis, which ran parallel to the coastal highway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kawfakha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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