Simsim (Gaza)
Simsim (also Sumsum ; Arabic سمسم) is a former Palestinian village, 15 km northeast of Gaza City .
Simsim was in the Gaza district of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine . As part of the first Arab-Israeli war , it was forcibly evacuated together with the population of the neighboring town of Najd on May 12, 1948.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Jamil al-Majdalawi , Palestinian politician (PFLP)
literature
- "Simsim (Sumsum)", in: Walid Khalidi (Ed.): All that remains. The Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, c1992. P. 136.
- Benny Morris : The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 31 ° 34 ' N , 34 ° 36' E