Nitzana, Israel
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Nitzana is an educational youth village and institutional settlement in southern Israel. Located in the western Negev desert, adjacent to the Egyptian border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat
Nitzana viewed from the south.
Al Auja before 1956
Remnants of the Turkish railway station. At the far left: the water stop.
Archaeological site of a Byzantine Monastery, St. Catherine in Nitzana, Israel.
Operation Volcano, also known as Operation Sabcha, was a large-scale Israel Defense Forces military operation carried out on the night of November 2–3, 1955 against Egyptian military positions in and
Nitzana, Israel
…parties, and was named after the Nabatean 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 Egyptian positions. On 18 June 2012 an Israeli was killed in a terrorist attack near the village. Nitzanei Sinai, a…
Al 'Awja Neutral Zone
IDF troops near Auja during Operation Horev