Omar Mukhtar Street

{{Short description|Street in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine}}

Omar Mukhtar Street ({{langx|ar|شارع عمر المختار}}) is the main street of Gaza City, in the State of Palestine, running from Palestine Square to the Port of Gaza in the Rimal district, separating the Old City's al-Daraj and Zaytoun quarters. Gaza's hotel strip is a part of Omar Mukhtar Street and most of Gaza's most important buildings are located along the street.Lee, Risha Kim. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kf5_7D0NQy4C&pg=PA361&dq=Omar+Mukhtar+Street+Gaza&ei=Vd0cSaaAIIHaygTt7N2pCQ#PPA367,M1 Let's Go Incorporate] pp.361-366. Built during World War I by Ottoman governor Jamal Pasha, the street was originally named after him. However, following the ouster of Ottoman forces from Palestine in 1917, Gaza's city council headed by Fahmi al-Husseini named the street after Omar Mukhtar, a Libyan revolutionary leader.{{Cite book|title=Handbook of oriental studies: Handbuch der Orientalistik. The Near and Middle East. Corpus inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2LtyFVNJmcC&q=Daraj+Gaza&pg=PA62|first1= Moshe|last1=Sharon|year=2009|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-17085-8|page=30}}Jacobs, Daniel (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=JXoY2vCZ5AEC&pg=RA5-PA453&dq=Omar+Mukhtar+Street+Gaza&lr=&ei=reIcSZrKJ47mM6W5pKoJ#PRA5-PA452,M1 Israel and the Palestinian territories] Rough Guides, p.453.

The British Mandatory Palestine turned Omar Mukhtar Street into a main street in 1937, using the zoning plan of the urban planner, Henry Kendall.[http://www.ybz.org.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Article_63.6.pdf רנה הברון, ‏מוחמד רוּשדי – משרתם של שני שלטונות, קתדרה 63, אפריל 1992, עמ' 107-98]