Al-Atatra

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title: "Al-Atatra" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["north-gaza-governorate", "villages-in-the-gaza-strip"] description: "Neighborhood in Gaza, Palestine" topic_path: "general/north-gaza-governorate" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Atatra" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Neighborhood in Gaza, Palestine ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Al-Atatra
العطاطرة
settlement_type	Suburb
official_name	Atatreh
native_name
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pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Gaza Strip
pushpin_mapsize	250
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Palestine
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	North Gaza Governorate
subdivision_type2	City
subdivision_name2	Beit Lahiya
leader_title1
established_title
established_title2
established_title3
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2_title	Religions
timezone	EET
utc_offset	+2
timezone_DST	+3
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
postal_code_type
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|postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = Al-Atatra () is a northwestern neighborhood in the city of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. Its residents, the majority of whom are farmers or landowners are not Palestinian refugees, unlike most of the population in the Gaza Strip, including Beit Lahiya. A major cash crop in al-Atatra are strawberries which were mainly exported to Israel and the West Bank before Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip following the territory's control by Hamas, a Palestinian paramilitary and political organization.

Al-Atatra was the target of assaults by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza War in 2008–09. At least 16 civilians were reported killed, including five who belonged to the same family, during the first few days of the war. Between 40 and 50 houses were destroyed as well.

During the Gaza war, the neighborhood was almost entirely destroyed within three weeks of the first aerial bombardments on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli soldier was filmed waving a pride flag in the neighborhood on the backdrop of rubble in November 2023, drawing criticism from LGBTQ activists.

References

References

2. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=g62Cww8ZcTQC&q=Atatra+Gaza Israel and the Occupied Territories, Indiscriminate Fire Palestinian Rocket Attacks on Israel and Israeli Artillery Shelling in the Gaza Strip].'' [[Human Rights Watch]]. 2009. p.72.
3. [[Taghreed El-Khodary. link. (2009-04-17 . ''[[The New York Times]]''. The New York Times Company. 2009-02-03.)
4. (26 October 2023). "Satellite images reveal the scale of destruction in northern Gaza showing flattened buildings in Beit Hanoun, Al Karameh, Izbat Beit Hanoun, and Atatra.".
5. (2023-10-26). "Gaza looks like a wasteland from space in these before-and-after photos".
6. "Israeli soldier flying rainbow flag in Gaza 'textbook pinkwashing'".

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