Huj - Citizendia

Huj
Arabic	هوج
Also Spelled	Hug
District	Gaza
Population	1,040 (1945)
Jurisdiction	21,988 dunams (22. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language There are 17 districts of the British Mandate of Palestine. Many were based on Ottoman Empire districts The District of Gaza was an administrative district situated in the southern Mediterranean coastline of the British Mandate of Palestine. A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of Area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used in various standardized versions 9 km²)
Date of depopulation	May 31, 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Explusion by Jewish forces
Current localities	Dorot

Huj (Arabic: هوج‎) is a former Palestinian village located 15km northeast of Gaza City. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn Gaza (غزة, עַזָּה ʕazzā is the largest city in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories. It has been identified as the ancient Philistine town of Oga. The Philistines ( Hebrew פלשתים plishtim) (see "other uses" below were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan, OGA means 'Other Government Agency' In government and military parlance it is often used to euphemistically speak of the Central Intelligence Its total land area amounted to approximately 22,000 dunams of which about 3/4 was in Arab ownership while the remaining 1/4 belonged to Jewish owners and the general public. A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of Area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used in various standardized versions The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ According to a 1945 census, Huj had a population of 1,040 inhabitants.

Capture by Israelis

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian forces took control of Huj. The Egyptian Army is the largest service branch within the Egyptian military establishment. Israel's Negev Brigade captured the town on May 31, 1948. The Negev Brigade (aka 12th Brigade Hativat HaNagev in Hebrew) was an Israeli infantry brigade that served in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The town's inhabitants fled toward the Gaza Strip and in 1998 numbered nearly 6,000.

Capture by Israelis

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