Bayt Shanna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 15, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 11.5 km southeast of Ramla.

Gaza Sanjak, known in Arabic as Bilād Ghazza, was a sanjak of the Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire centered in Gaza, northwards up to the Nahr al-‘Awja/the Yarkon River. In the 16th century it was divided into nawahi : Gaza in the south and Ramla in the north along the Nahr Rūbīn/Wādī al-Ṣarār.