Iraq Suwaydan
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 Iraq Suwaydan
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| Arabic | عراق سويدان |
| Name meaning | "The cavern of Suweidan" |
| Also spelled | Iraq al-Suweidan |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Coordinates | 31°38′55″N 34°41′19″E / 31.64861°N 34.68861°ECoordinates: 31°38′55″N 34°41′19″E / 31.64861°N 34.68861°E |
| Palestine grid | 121/117 |
| Population | 660 (1945) |
| Area | 7,529 dunams 7.5 km² |
| Date of depopulation | July 8, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Yad Natan,Otzem,Sde Yoav |
Iraq Suwaydan (Arabic: عراق سويدان, Hebrew: עיראק סווידאן) was a Palestinian Arab village located 27 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. It was captured by Israeli forces in Operation Yoav against the defending Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village infrastructure, with the exception of the police station built by the British Mandate authorities, was destroyed.
Archeological excavations have found remains from the early Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad periods.
Iraq Suwaydan, like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, Iraq Suwaydan was listed as an entirely Muslim village called "Iraq", located in the nahiya of Gazza in the liwa of Gazza, with a population of 45 families and 16 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, sesame, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 5,000 akçe. 6/18 of the taxes went to a Waqf.
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