al-Faluja (Arabic: الفالوجة‎)

al-Faluja (Arabic: الفالوجة‎)

Was a Palestinian Arab village in the British Mandate for Palestine, located 30 kilometers northeast of Gaza City.

al-Faluja (Arabic: الفالوجة‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the British Mandate for Palestine, located 30 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. The village and the neighbouring village of Iraq al-Manshiyya formed part of the Faluja pocket, where 4,000 Egyptian troops, who had entered the area as a result of the 1948 war, were besieged for four months by the newly established Israel Defense Forces. The 1949 Armistice Agreements allowed for a peaceful transfer of those areas outside Gaza to Israeli control, allowing Egyptian troops to remain in Gaza. Following the agreements, the Arab residents were harassed and abandoned the villages.  The Israeli town of Qiryat Gat, as well as the moshav Revaha, border the site of the former town. Qiryat Gat (founded in 1954 on a looted land and it’s the current location of Intel’s FAB 18 semiconductor manufacturing plant).