Mavki'im
{{Short description|Moshav in southern Israel}}
{{Infobox Kibbutz
| name = Mavki'im
| image = הרחבת מבקיעים.JPG
| hebname=מבקיעים
| foundation = 1949
| founded_by = Demoblised IDF soldiers
| district = south
| council = Hof Ashkelon
| affiliation = HaOved HaTzioni
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population = {{Israel populations|Mavqi'im}}
| population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map=Israel ashkelon |pushpin_mapsize=250 |pushpin_label_position=bottom
| coordinates = {{coord|31|37|18|N|34|34|41|E|display=inline,title}}
| website =
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Mavki'im ({{langx|he|מַבְקִיעִים||Breakthroughs}}) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located near Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Mavqi'im}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}
History
The moshav was founded in 1949 as a kibbutz by demobilised IDF soldiers who had immigrated from Hungary on land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of Barbara.{{Cite web |title=Real Names of Stolen Villages, Illegal Settlements of the Gaza Perimeter |url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1654492 |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Institute for Palestine Studies |language=en}} Barbara was to be included as part of the Arab state in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, but its inhabitants were forcefully expelled after the Israel Defense Forces took the village from the Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. After the war the Israeli government forbade the Palestinian residents to return.{{Cite web |date=2019-05-15 |title=Israel must respect rights of return for Palestinians |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/05/israels-refusal-to-grant-palestinian-refugees-right-to-return-has-fuelled-seven-decades-of-suffering/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Amnesty International |language=en}} In 1954 it was converted to a moshav shitufi. Its name refers to the IDF breakthrough against the Egyptian army in the area during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}
In 2005 the moshav absorbed 25 families who were evacuated from Pe'at Sadeh as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, which withdrew from settlements in the Gaza Strip considered illegal under international law.{{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}
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Category:Populated places established in 1949