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Juhor ad-Dik
Municipality type D in Gaza, State of Palestine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Juhor ad-Dik (Arabic: جحر الديك, lit. 'burrow of the cock') is a Palestinian farming village in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 4,586 inhabitants in 2017.[1] This area was controlled by Israel during Gaza war. In May, 2024, the Washington Post reported that the village had been destroyed in order to construct the Netzarim Corridor.[2]
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2009 Israeli invasion
During Israel's 2009 invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops and Palestinian militiamen battled frequently in Juhor ad-Dik, with over 100 of the village's houses having been bulldozed by Israeli forces by the end of the conflict.[3][4]
2014 Israeli invasion
The village suffered greatly during the 2014 Gaza war, with many of its buildings reduced to ruins.[5] In January 2015, according to The New Arab, there was "not a house left standing" in the village in the aftermath of the war.[6] Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence published an anonymous interview with a first sergeant in the IDF's Armored Corps, who recounted his unit's wholesale destruction of houses and trees in the village using IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers.[7]
2014–2023
The northern Gaza Strip's largest landfill is located in the Juhor ad-Dik area, about 500 meters from the Gaza border fence.[8][9][10] In September 2023, a severe heat wave caused the outbreak of a fire at the landfill site that lasted several days.[9] Amid the Gaza war, waste began accumulating throughout the streets of Gaza City, as municipal garbagemen were unable to transport it to the Juhor ad-Dik landfill site due to heavy Israeli bombardment.[10]
2023 Israeli invasion
On 28 October 2023, an IDF raid maneuvered into the Gaza Strip east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the Juhor ad-Dik area.[11] During the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli infantry and armour near Juhor ad-Dik were frequently the targets of ambushes, mortar attacks, and anti-tank fire by Hamas's Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.[12]
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Demographics
In the 1997 census by the PCBS, Palestinian refugees made up 72.3% of the population which at the time was 2,275.[13]
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