Al-Mawasi

Al-Mawasi

Infobox Palestinian Authority muni
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Al-Mawasi ( _ar. المواسي) is a Bedouin Palestinian town on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip, approximately one kilometer wide and fourteen kilometers long, that prior to Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in 2005 existed as a Palestinian enclave within the Katif bloc of Israeli settlements. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Mawasi had a population of 1,409 in mid-year 2006.

External links

* [http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/3822b5e39951876a85256b6e0058a478/4579d76b4856f10185256fd600562ba2!OpenDocument UNICEF Brings Critical Supplies to the Isolated Children of Al-Mawasi]
* [http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/200303_Al_Mawasi.asp Al-Mawasi, Gaza Strip: Impossible Life in an Isolated Enclave] B'Tselem publication


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