A sourced archive reading
Hamama was one of the larger villages by population in the Gaza subdistrict, its people displaced on 28 October 1948. Available sources attribute no specific stitch to the village. The 1945 statistics also record a small Jewish population share alongside the Palestinian majority.
The source records a historical population of 5,070 people.
Palestine Open Maps / Institute for Palestine Studies — Hamama (accessed 26 July 2026)
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