General Information

Abasan al-Kabira in is a Palestinian city located in the Khan Yunis Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip. Abasan Al-Kabira located in the southern part of Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis Governorate. It’s about 18km2 and the inhabitants are 30,000. About 20% of the total area is a built-up area, the rest (80%) is agricultural area. Municipality of Abasan Al-Kabira is one of Gaza Strip municipalities, it was established on 1968. It work according to the local government law, which was issued in 1997. The municipality of Abasan Al-Kabira provides water, solid waste, building permits, and trade licensing services to its residents. Abasan Al-Kabira has a unique collection of early Byzantine mosaics and monuments. In cooperation with Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on 1995, there were fragments of two pavements uncovered in Abasan Al-Kabira, we did clean, consolidate them, and work on missing trench walls. Dated by an inscription to 606, the pavements are kept in situ and the Department of Antiquities built a hard protection over them. Trying to preserve pavements in their archaeological context needs to work also on the architecture, the walls of the rooms paved with mosaics. In Abasan, the adobe walls were missing, and only a few parts of the foundations were kept.