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The peninsula acquired the name Sinai in modern times due to the assumption that a mountain near Saint Catherine's Monastery is the Biblical Mount Sinai. [2] Mount Sinai is one of the most religiously significant places in the Abrahamic faiths. The Sinai Peninsula has been a part of Egypt from the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 3100 BC).
Gabal Sin Bishar (also called Jebel Sin Bishar or Mount Sin Bishar) is a mountain located in west-central It was proposed to be the biblical Mount Sinai by Menashe Har-El , a biblical geographer at Tel Aviv University in his book The Sinai Journeys: The Route of the Exodus . [ 1 ]
Map location: Gaza Strip: Spatial reference system: WGS84: Archival data: Notes: Made with ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator, projections are: TOP: 34.3988181°E 31.6318475°N; LEFT: 34.0830074°E 31.3969423°N; BOTTOM: 34.3798471°E 31.1787763°N; RIGHT: 34.6627377°E 31.4198191°N (if you can figure out how they work)
Newly-released satellite photos reviewed by the Associated Press show a large exodus of Palestinians from the southernmost Gaza city of Rafah earlier this month ahead of a feared Israeli ground ...
Israel has said it will mount an offensive to take out Hamas's "last bastion" in Rafah, where well over 1 million Palestinians have sought sanctuary from its devastating Gaza offensive.
A paper by an Israeli government ministry proposing that Palestinians in Gaza be transferred to Egypt’s Sinai Desert has fueled outrage.
The James Cameron-produced History Channel special, The Exodus Decoded, suggests that this location, now in an Egyptian military zone, is the best candidate for the biblical Mount Sinai. The program claims that it not only features "biblical geographical" clues, but that it also possesses three important traits described in the Book of Exodus:
Israel’s call Friday for half of the Gaza Strip’s population to evacuate south is hiking Egypt’s fears of a massive influx of refugees across the heavily fortified border into its territory.