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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Street in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine}}<br />
{{Infobox road<br />
| name = Omar Mukhtar Street<br>{{lang|ar|شارع عمر المختار}}<br />
| map = {{Maplink-road}}<br />
| label1 = Location<br />
| location1 = [[Gaza City]], [[Gaza Strip]], [[Palestine]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Omar Mukhtar Street''' ({{langx|ar|شارع عمر المختار}}) is the main street of [[Gaza City]], in the [[State of Palestine]], running from [[Palestine Square]] to the [[Port of Gaza, Rimal|Port of Gaza]] in the [[Rimal]] district, separating the Old City's [[al-Daraj]] and Zaytoun quarters. Gaza's hotel strip is a part of Omar Mukhtar Street and most of Gaza's most important buildings are located along the street.<ref>Lee, Risha Kim. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=kf5_7D0NQy4C&pg=PA361&dq=Omar+Mukhtar+Street+Gaza&ei=Vd0cSaaAIIHaygTt7N2pCQ#PPA367,M1 Let's Go Incorporate]'' pp.361-366.</ref> Built during [[World War I]] by Ottoman governor Jamal Pasha, the street was originally named after him. However, following the ouster of Ottoman forces from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] in 1917, Gaza's city council headed by [[Fahmi al-Husseini]] named the street after [[Omar Mukhtar]], a [[Libya]]n revolutionary leader.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Handbook of oriental studies: Handbuch der Orientalistik. The Near and Middle East. Corpus inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2LtyFVNJmcC&q=Daraj+Gaza&pg=PA62|first1= Moshe|last1=Sharon|year=2009|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-17085-8|page=30}}</ref><ref>Jacobs, Daniel (1998). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JXoY2vCZ5AEC&pg=RA5-PA453&dq=Omar+Mukhtar+Street+Gaza&lr=&ei=reIcSZrKJ47mM6W5pKoJ#PRA5-PA452,M1 Israel and the Palestinian territories]'' Rough Guides, p.453.</ref><br />
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The [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandatory Palestine]] turned Omar Mukhtar Street into a main street in 1937, using the [[zoning]] plan of the [[urban planner]], [[Henry Kendall (urban planner)|Henry Kendall]].<ref>[http://www.ybz.org.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Article_63.6.pdf רנה הברון, מוחמד רוּשדי – משרתם של שני שלטונות, קתדרה 63, אפריל 1992, עמ' 107-98]</ref><br />
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==Important buildings==<br />
[[File:Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Gaza_Hotels_(1).jpg|thumb|Gaza's Central Library before its destruction]]<br />
*[[Great Mosque of Gaza]]<br />
*[[Welayat Mosque]]<br />
*Public Library of Gaza (destroyed by Israel in 2024)<br />
*[[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights]]<br />
*Gaza Municipal Hall<br />
*[[Saint Porphryrius Church]]<br />
*[[Gold Market]] (Souk ad-Dahab)<br />
*Rashad Shawwa Cultural Centre{{fact|date=November 2023}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Streets in Gaza City]]<br />
[[Category:Streets in Palestine]]<br />
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