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Auja al-Hafir

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former Arab villages in Palestine Former Al 'Awja Neutral Zone Auja al-Hafir , often simply Auja , was an ancient road junction, close to water wells and a Bedouin locality.1 The border crossing between Egypt and Ottoman/British Palestine, about 60 km south of Gaza, was situated there. Other sources name the locality el-Audja, 'Uja al-Hafeer, El Auja el Hafir and variations thereof. The Ottoman Empire built a police station (starting in 1902) and before the World War I together with Germans built a military base. From 1905 to 1915 there have been built a railroad and a large administrative centre together with administrators apartment building. The central route across the desert to the Suez Canal crossed El Audja to Ismailia. During the British Mandate of Palestine it was part of the District of Beersheba. During the British Mandate the location was a prison camp. It was to become part of the Arab state according the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine . In 1948 the Egyptian Army used the location as a base. It became a part of the South District of Israel as a result of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , when it was captured in the Battle of Auja al-Hafir . The 89th Mechanized Commando Battalion, which also had an English-speaking platoon, saw action at Auja el Hafir (December 1948), where one of the American volunteers, Philip Balkin, was killed. The platoon was composed of men from England, Germany, Holland, Rhodesia, South Africa, and the U.S. The Israeli name of the area is Nitzana after an ancient Nabatean city. The al-Auja Zone was a demilitarized zone in the western Negev and eastern Sinai , created as a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements and based around the village. The DMZ was administered by the United Nations Emergency Force . The area was re-militarized by Israel on September 21, 1955, and occupied both in the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War .2

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ancient road junction

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ancient road junction close to water wells in the western negev and eastern sinai

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