Al-Atatra (Arabic: العطاطرة) is a northwestern neighborhood in the city of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
[1] Its residents, the majority of whom are farmers or landowners are not Palestinian refugees, unlike most of the population in the Gaza Strip, including Beit Lahiya.
A major cash crop in al-Atatra are strawberries which were mainly exported to Israel and the West Bank before Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip following the territory's control by Hamas, a Palestinian paramilitary and political organization.
[2] Al-Atatra was the target of assaults by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza War in 2008–09.
[3][4] An Israeli soldier was filmed waving a pride flag in the neighborhood on the backdrop of rubble in November 2023, drawing criticism from LGBTQ activists.