El-Remal is one of the recent suburbs in Gaza. It came to life
in the aftermath of the Second World War. The whole area, lying on the Mediterranean was
covered with sand. For this reason, it was called El-Remal, an Arabic word meaning sand.
In the 1920’s, a road was constructed, thus linking this remote area with the old
city.
During the
British Mandate, specifically in the 1903’s Gaza central prison was built since then
and owing to increasing population, building and construction works have extended to
El-Remal. Moreover the Egyptian Administration started to allocate land among employees
for residential purposes.
In the
1960’s El-Remal neighborhood highly flourished and turned out to be an urban area
where the Legislative Council Building, along with, schools, cinemas were constructed.
In the wake of
the 1948 Catastrophe, precisely in 1950, the Beach camp was constructed in order to
shelter the displaced Palestinians.
The number of
population living at El-Remal reached 70.000 as estimated in March 1996 by the Central
Census Administration. Nowadays El-Remal is divided into two parts, the southern and the
northern. The latter lies to the North of Omar El-Mokhtar, while the former lies to the
North.
The reason
behind the dramatic increase of El-Remal’s population, is that, El-Naser city was
built in the northern part in the 1960’s. it was mainly built for the sons of the
martyrs. The city which stretched to the north had a hospital, a school and a mosque. In
the 1970’s, a suburb, called El-Sheikh Radwan and related to the above mentioned
Sheikh was constructed. |
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Soldier Statue in El-Remal |
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