Yasser Arafat International Airport
Defunct airport in the Gaza Strip, Palestine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the pre-World War II international airport in Gaza, see RAF Gaza.
For the airport in the Gaza Province, Mozambique, see Xai-Xai Chongoene Airport.
Yasser Arafat International Airport (Arabic: مطار ياسر عرفات الدولي Maṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli) (IATA: GZA, ICAO: LVGZ),[1] formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, was located in the Gaza Strip, between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility opened on 24 November 1998, and all passenger flights ceased in February 2001, during the Second Intifada. Israel bombed the radar station and control tower on 4 December 2001 and bulldozers cut the runway on 10 January 2002, rendering the airport inoperable.
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Yasser Arafat International Airport مطار ياسر عرفات الدولي | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Defunct | ||||||||||
Operator | Palestinian Civil Aviation Authority and Israeli government | ||||||||||
Location | Gaza Strip | ||||||||||
Opened | 24 November 1998 (1998-11-24) | ||||||||||
Closed | 2001 | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 98 m / 320 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 31°14′47″N 34°16′34″E | ||||||||||
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