On the third anniversary of the martyrdom of the national hero
Mustafa Hafez (July 1959), and during a special celebration to commemorate the martyrs put
together by the board of Gaza Municipality on its public park, the Egyption governor at
the time announced the donation of 40,000 Egyption pounds. The money was aimed at
constructing five road-accessible residential buildings supplied with water and
electricity on 80 Dnms. that belonged to the government to house the families of the
martyrs. Hajj Raghib Al-Alami, vice mayor at the time, announced on his part the donation
of 30,000 Egyption pounds for the purpose of hospital, mosque, and a school construction
in this new neighborhood which was called the City of Victory for the Siblings of Martyrs.
The area just south of Sheik Radwan area is still known today as the Victory Neighborhood
(Hay Al-Nasr).
On the fifth
anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal (March,57), or the "Festivals of March" as
was called in 1962, Yossif al-Ajroodi, the Egyptian governor at the time, opened the newly
finished five buildings of the Victory Neighborhood and distributed forty apartment
ownership titles. Since then the area witnessed a major growth in construction on the
government's destributed land. |
