Talk:Al-Mawasi, Rafah

Merge suggestion?
There is a page entitled Arab al-Mawasi massacre that is a stub as well. Should these two be merged? Tiamut 11:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Al-Mawasi
ِAl-Mawasi is a generic term (plural of MaSiya ماصية) which means farmlands, the exact etymology of which I'm not sure (has something to do with the irrigation system). Mawasi stretch along the Gaza Strip coastline from Deir Al-Balah in the North to the Egyptian border. The Al-mawasi in the PCBS publication is the populated area of Al-Mawasi in Rafah (for which I added the coordinates). I get the coords from this map. There also seems to be a populated area to the North, in Khan Yunis Gov't in the OCHA map, but I couldn't find it in the PCBS publication. The B'tselem article mentions 14km long and 1 km wide, which would seem to correspond to the whole area of Mawasi, and not just the Rafah "village". I will try to find some references. --Fjmustak (talk) 00:29, 26 September 2009 (UTC)