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    Auja al-Hafir (Arabic: عوجة الحفير, also Auja) was an ancient road junction close to water wells in the western Negev and eastern Sinai. It was the traditional...
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  • launching units at (north to south): Bir 'Asluj, al Mushrife and 'Auja. 'Auja, also known as 'Auja al-Hafir, was an administrative center built by the Ottoman...
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  • Auja may refer to: Auja al-Hafir, an ancient road junction in the Negev Desert on the border of modern Israel and Egypt Al-Awja, a village near Tikrit...
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    The Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway took place on 23 May 1917 after the Second Battle of Gaza and before the Battle of Beersheba during...
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    is strategically important. Located approximately 25 kilometres from Auja al-Hafir, and 45 kilometres southeast of El Arish, it was the site of major battles...
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    On October 28, 1955, after a border incident with Egypt around the Auja al-Hafir demilitarized zone, Golani was tasked with leading Operation Volcano...
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    gone to settle in Auja al-Hafir and had been living there for more than two years. The Bedouin made representation to return to el-Auja under United Nations...
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    parentheses) Auja al-Hafir (Nessana) Beersheba al-Imara (Ofakim, Urim) al-Jammama (Ruhama) al-Khalasa Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) Khirbat Futais (Al-Qadirat clan...
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    city. It also gives its name to the Nitzana Border Crossing, formerly Auja al-Hafir. It was the site of Operation Volcano in 1955, an Israeli raid against...
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    number of Palestinian leaders and sent them to a detention camp at Auja al-Hafir in the Negev desert. The Battle of Nur Shams on 21 June marked an escalation...
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  • Jordan Valley al-Jiftlik (depopulated but soon repopulated) Agarith Huseirat Jerusalem area Nabi Samwil In the Negev/Sinai Desert Auja al-Hafir – A demilitarized...
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  • 1948 – An Israeli Piper Cub was shot down by an Egyptian Spitfire near Auja al-Hafir. 30 December 1948 – An Egyptian Macchi C.205 Veltro was shot down by...
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    (1867) The Desert of the Exodus (part 1) (1871) and (part 2) Poems of Beha al-Din Zuhayr (Arabic and English, 1876–1877) Arabic Grammar (1874) Jerusalem...
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    close to the newly agreed border with Sinai al-Mulayha, created in 1908 as a midway point between Hafir and Aqaba Beersheba (Ottoman Turkish: بلدية بءرالسبع;...
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    a modern-day village near the ruins Auja al-Hafir Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon (2001). "Nessana; Auja el-Hafir". Archaeological Encyclopedia of the...
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    political positions. He died in 1995 in Arish. He was born in 1923 in Auja al-Hafir, Beersheba Subdistrict, Palestine. He completed his high school education...
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    25, 1953. Egypt and Israel signed a General Armistice Agreement at Auja al-Hafir, a town on the border between the two nations. The Agreement defined...
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  • assault.' 'All That Remains' lists 20 towns and villages e.g. pages 83/82. Al-Batani al-Gharbi (pop. 980) 'By the end of May the two brigades had succeeded in...
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  • including al-Burj, Bir Ma‘in (near present-day Modi‘in), Tall al-Safi, Zakariyya (in the Elah Valley), Abu Shusha and al-Qubab (southeast of Ramle), al-Khayriyya...
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  • In Operation Horev, the Israelis went on to capture Bir 'Asluj and Auja al-Hafir, cutting off the eastern wing of the Egyptian expeditionary force, before...
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    their principal desert base at Hafir El Auja, located on the Ottoman side of the Egyptian-Ottoman frontier. Hafir el Auja was linked to Beersheba, Gaza...
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  • Messudshi–Tulkarem–Ludd (1915), Wadi Sarrar–Et-Tine–Beersheba, Beersheba–Hafir (1915), Et-Tine–Gaza (1916), and Deir el-Balah–Beersheba (1916). Ottoman...
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  • February – Egypt and Israel signed a General Armistice Agreement at Auja al-Hafir, a town on the border between the two nations; the Agreement defines...
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  • al-Manshiyya Iraq Suwaydan Isdud al-Jaladiyya al-Jiyya Julis al-Jura Jusayr Karatiyya Kawfakha Kawkaba al-Khisas al-Masmiyya al-Kabira al-Masmiyya al-Saghira...
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    tax records of 1525-1526 and 1538–1539, as being located in the Sanjak of Al-Quds. According to archaeological work, the village originated in the late...
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    force split off from Beersheba to link up with more Egyptian forces at Auja al-Hafir, on May 19 the main column attacked Yad Mordechai, and on May 20, the...
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  • attending a meeting of the Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission at Auja al-Hafir. The Austrian Government announced the establishment of diplomatic relations...
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    that freedom of movement must be afforded to UN observers in the area. Auja al-Hafir List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 101 to 200 (1953–1965)...
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    Elyakum Shapirra performing for Israeli soldiers at Auja al-Hafir during Operation Horev, December 1948....
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    second attempt on 21 and 22 December 1917 to advance across the Nahr el Auja, as the Battle of Jaffa, although Jaffa had been occupied as a consequence...
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