Tell Ali Muntar

{{Short description|Bronze Age archaeological site in Palestine}}

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| alternate_name = Tell Muntar, Tell Al-Muntar

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Tell Ali Muntar is a tell (a mound created by accumulation of remains) about {{convert|2|km|sigfig=1}} south-east of Gaza City in Palestine. The former settlement is thought to have been occupied in the Middle Bronze Age, about the 2nd millennium BCE.{{sfn|Clarke|Sadeq|2004|pp=35-36}} The remains of the settlement cover an estimated {{convert|100|m2}}. It occupied the highest point in the area around Gaza. Tell Ali Muntar was surveyed in 1998 as part of the Gaza Research Project, but it has not been excavated. The archaeologists discovered mud bricks from buildings and pottery that ranged from the Middle Bronze Age to the Ottoman period.{{sfn|Clarke|Sadeq|2004|pp=35-36}} It is likely that Tell Ali Muntar was occupied at the same time as the Bronze Age settlement of Tell Gaza; archaeologists Joanna Clarke and Louise Steel suggest that settlement may have shifted from Tell Muntar to Tell Gaza.{{sfn|Clarke|Steel|1999|pp=222, 226}} UNESCO has verified that more than 100 heritage sites have been damaged as a result of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip starting in 2023, including Tell Ali Muntar.Listed as "Tell Al-Muntar". {{harvnb|UNESCO|2025}}