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Nahal HaBesor with the Bronze and Early Iron Age sites and modern towns of the area Besor ( , Nahal HaBesor ) is a wadi in southern Israel . The stream begins at Mount Boker (near Sde Boker ), and spills into the Mediterranean Sea near Al-Zahra in the Gaza Strip , where it is called Wadi Ghazzeh , also spelled Wadi Gaza. Further upstream it is marked as Wadi esh-Shallaleh on the 1878 Survey of Western Palestine map. There are several important archaeological sites located in this area. The stream is the largest in the northern Negev, and together with its largest tributaries, the Nahal Gerar , and the Beersheba stream, reaches as far east into the desert as Sde Boker, Yeruham , Dimona and Arad / Tel Arad . The Gaza section of the Coastal Aquifer is the only significant source of water in the Gaza Strip. The Wadi Gaza runs through a wetland, the Gaza Valley , and as of 2012 it is used as a wastewater dump. Clive Lipchin; Springer, 2007 "Gaza's Valley of Slow Death | إعلاميون من أجل صحافة استقصائية عربية (أريج)" (in Arabic).1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Tze'elim bridge on Besor river (June 20, 2007) HaBesor ( , Nahal HaBesor ), meaning 'the [good] news', is a wadi in southern Israel . The stream begins at Mount Boker (near Sde Boker ), and spills into the Mediterranean Sea near Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip , where it is called Wadi Gaza . The stream is the largest in the northern Negev, and together with its largest tributaries, the Grar and Beersheba streams, reaches as far as Sde Boker, Yeruham , Dimona and Arad / Tel Arad . In the Old Testament Besor was a ravine or brook in the extreme south-west of Judah, where 200 of David 's men stayed behind because they were faint, while the other 400 pursued the Amalekites ( 1 Samuel 30:9–10 , 30:21 ). Probably south of Gaza .
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Typical for the region, Loess Badlands, can be seen at the background.Besor ( , Nahal HaBesor ) is a wadi in southern Israel . The stream begins at Mount Boker (near Sde Boker ), and spills into the Mediterranean Sea near Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip , where it is called Wadi Gaza . Further upstream it is marked as Wadi esh-Shallaleh on the 1878 Survey of Western Palestine map. The stream is the largest in the northern Negev, and together with its largest tributaries, the Grar and Beersheba streams, reaches as far east into the desert as Sde Boker, Yeruham , Dimona and Arad / Tel Arad . The Gaza section of the Coastal Aquifer the only significant source of water in the Gaza Strip.The Wadi Gaza runs through a wetland, the Gaza Valley , and as of 2012 it is used as a wastewater dump.Clive Lipchin; Springer, 2007 "Gaza's Valley of Slow Death | إعلاميون من أجل صحافة استقصائية عربية (أريج)" (in Arabic).
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
The Besor stream ( Nahal HaBesor ) with the Bronze and Early Iron Age sites and modern towns of the area The Besor ( ) or Wadi Gaza ( ) is a wadi in southern Israel and Palestine . The stream begins at Mount Boker (near Sde Boker ), and spills into the Mediterranean Sea near Al-Zahra in the Gaza Strip . Further upstream it was marked as Wadi esh-Shallaleh on the 1878 Survey of Western Palestine map. There are several important archaeological sites located in this area. The stream is the largest in the northern Negev, and together with its largest tributaries, the Nahal Gerar , and the Beersheba stream, reaches as far east into the desert as Sde Boker, Yeruham , Dimona and Arad / Tel Arad . The Gaza section of the Coastal Aquifer is the only significant source of water in the Gaza Strip. The Wadi Gaza runs through a wetland, the Gaza Valley , and as of 2012 it is used as a wastewater dump. Clive Lipchin; Springer, 2007 "Gaza's Valley of Slow Death | إعلاميون من أجل صحافة استقصائية عربية (أريج)" (in Arabic).
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Wadi in southern Israel and Palestine Wadi Gaza ( Arabic : وادي غزة , romanized : Wadi Ghazza ) and Besor Stream ( Hebrew : נחל הבשור , romanized : Nahal HaBesor , Ancient Greek : Ἀβεσσά , romanized : Habessá ) are parts of a river system in the Gaza Strip in Palestine and the Negev region of Israel .Wadi Gaza is a wadi (river valley) that divides the northern and southern ends of the Gaza Strip, whose major tributary is Besor Stream.
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wadi in southern israel and palestine
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parts of a river system in the gaza strip in palestine and the negev region of israel
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