Editing Gaza City (section)

=== Districts ===
[[File:غزة.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Eastern Gaza City]] 
Gaza is composed of thirteen districts (''hayy'') outside of the Old City.<ref name="OCHA">{{Cite map|title=Gaza Strip: Communities and Neighborhoods Map| publisher=[[United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs]]| edition=2009| url=http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_crisis_neighbourhoods_map_2009_01_26.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219092947/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_crisis_neighbourhoods_map_2009_01_26.pdf|archive-date=2009-02-19}}</ref> The first extension of Gaza beyond its city center was the district of [[Shuja'iyya]], built on a hill just east and southeast of the Old City during the [[Ayyubid]] period.<ref name="Sharon30">Sharon, 2009, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=P2LtyFVNJmcC&pg=PA30 30]</ref> In the northeast is the Mamluk-era district of [[Tuffah]],<ref name="Butt">Butt, 1995, p. 9.</ref> which is roughly divided into eastern and western halves and was originally located within the Old City's walls.<ref name="Sheehan" />

During the 1930s and 1940s, a new residential district, [[Rimal]] (currently divided into the districts of Northern Rimal and Southern Rimal),<ref name="OCHA" /> was constructed on the sand dunes west of the city center, and the district of [[Zeitoun, Gaza|Zeitoun]] was built along Gaza's southern and southwestern borders, while the Judeide ("the New") and Turukman neighborhoods of Shuja'iyya expanded into separate districts in the northeast and southeast, respectively.<ref name="Abu-Lughod" /><ref name="MET">{{cite web|url=http://www.mideasttravelling.net/palestine/gaza/gaza_culture.htm |title=Travel in Gaza |publisher=MidEastTravelling |access-date=2009-02-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823050026/http://www.mideasttravelling.net/palestine/gaza/gaza_culture.htm |archive-date=August 23, 2013 }}</ref> [[Judeide]] (also known Shuja'iyyat al-Akrad) was named after the [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] military units who settled there during the Mamluk era, while [[Turukman]] was named after the [[Oghuz Turks|Turkmen]] military units who settled there.<ref name="Sharon30" />
[[File:Gaza_port.jpg|thumb|right|View of Gaza from the port]]
The areas between Rimal and the Old City became the districts of [[Sabra, Gaza|Sabra]] and Daraj.<ref name="Butt" /> In the northwest is the district of [[Nasser, Gaza|Nasser]], built in the early 1950s and named in honor of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.<ref name="Husseini" /> The district of [[Sheikh Radwan]], developed in the 1970s, is {{convert|3|km|mi}} to the north of the Old City and is named after Sheikh Radwan—the tomb of whom is located within the district.<ref name="Butt" /><ref>Bitton-Ashkelony, 2004, p. 75.</ref> Gaza has absorbed the village of al-Qubbah near [[Green Line (Israel)|the border with Israel]], as well as the [[Palestinian refugee camp]] of [[al-Shati]] along the coast,<ref name="PR" /> although the latter is not under the city's municipal jurisdiction. In the late 1990s, the PNA built the more affluent neighborhood of [[Tel al-Hawa]] along the southern edge of Rimal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35061 |title=Tel Al-Hawa: The invasion and then after |publisher=[[Ma'an News Agency]] |date=2009-01-17 |access-date=2009-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822045032/http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35061 |archive-date=2013-08-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Along the southern coast of the city is the neighborhood of [[Sheikh Ijlin]].<ref name="OCHA" />