Hamama

This article is about the town in Palestine. For the town in Lebanon, see Hammana.

Hamama حمامة Hamameh
People of Hamama with Governor Aref al Aref and the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, in 1943
Etymology: "dove"
A series of historical maps of the area around Hamama (click the buttons)
Hamama Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°41′35″N 34°35′32″E
Palestine grid	111/122
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Gaza
Date of depopulation	4 November 1948
Area
• Total	41.4 km2 (16.0 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	5,070
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Nitzanim, Beit Ezra, Eshkolot

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Hamama (Arabic: حمامة) was a Palestinian town of over 5,000 inhabitants that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was located 24 kilometers north of Gaza. It was continuously inhabited from the Mamluk period (c. 1270) until 1948.

The site had been previously inhabited from the Hellenistic through the Roman and Byzantine periods, flourishing during the latter. It has been suggested that the settlement there was the city known from sources by the Greek name of Peleia, but some are placing that city closer to Ascalon. The site has been used to build a new neighbourhood in the northern part of the Israeli city of Ashkelon, after undergoing a rescue dig.