RAF Gaza

Royal Air Force Gaza or more simply RAF Gaza is a former Royal Air Force station on the southwest coast of Mandatory Palestine, in the modern day Gaza Governorate in Palestine.

It was constructed in 1917 for military use by the Ottoman Empire, with German assistance.

[2] RAF Gaza was used for passenger services by Imperial Airways from 1927 as a stop en route to Baghdad and further to Karachi or Batavia, correspondingly.

[3]) and KLM (since 1933[4])[5][6] In the 1930s, an illustrated London magazine proclaimed that passengers overnighting at Gaza, hailed as "the gateway to the Holy Land", were staying where Samson had once removed the city gates.

The airfield was used as the Middle East ammunition depot from July to September 1942.

Imperial Airways Handley Page H.P.42 airliner G-AAUD Hanno at Gaza, ca. 1935