| has gloss | eng: :For the road junction with the same name, see Malakhi Junction. Qastina was a Palestinian village, located 38 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Location Qastina was situated on an elevated spot in a generally flat area on the coastal plain, on the highway between al-Majdal and the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. A British military camp, Beer Tuvia, was 3 km. southwest of the village. History In 1596 Qastina was a village in the Ottoman Empire, nahiya (subdistrict) of Gaza under the liwa' (district) of Gaza, with a population of 385. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley and sesame, and fruits, as well as goats, beehives and vineyards. |