Sheikh Ijlin (Arabic: الشيخ عجلين[1]) is a neighborhood in southern Gaza City near the coastal road.

[2] On 18 November 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the neighborhood, destroying the offices of the Preventive Security Force of the Palestinian National Authority.

[3] With no sewage leakage into the open ocean after an 2022 internationally-backed sewage cleanup, the neighborhood's beaches became popular in Gaza City.

[4] In December 2023 the New York Times reported that Israel had carried out necroviolence by razing six cemeteries in the Gaza Strip including that of Sheikh Ijlin.

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