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127SAND CHARACTERISTICS AND BEACH PROFILES OF THE COAST OF GAZA STRIP, PALESTINEurban areas, and part of Gaza valley, which is also called Wadi Gaza. The coastal zone coversapproximately 74 km 2 , of which 2.7 km 2 are beaches.The coastline has a straight and sandy shore. The near-coast continental shelf slopesdown with a gradient of 1:100. The irregular and rocky seabed of the coastal shelf to the depth of100 m is 28 km wide in the south and 14 km wide in the north. The seabed drops quickly beyondthe depth of 100 m. Its sediments consist mainly of sand 25 m deep, with muddy places near theWadi Gaza (Soghreah, 1996).This paper’s aim is to study the textural parameters of this location’s sands in order tocharacterize their provenance and the beach profile along the coast.Material and MethodsField ProcedureI selected 12 locations along the Gaza Strip’s beach, as indicated in Figure 1B, and identifiedthem using landmarks and global positioning satellite (GPS) technology. Table 1 details this. Thisstudy then collected sand samples of at least 300 g from the uppermost cm of each location’sinshore, foreshore, and backshore environments. This study surveyed the beach profiles using atape measure and portable GPS technology.StationnumberStationNGPS LocationsE1 Es-Sudania 31 o 34` 30.0`` 34 o 28` 38.9``2 Es-Sudania (El Nouras) 31 o 33` 37.9 34 o 27` 55``3North Beach Camp (Es-SafinaBuilding)31 o 32` 48.4`` 34 o 27` 14.0``4 Gaza Port 31 o 31` 17.0`` 34 o 25` 44.1``5 Esheikh Ejlein 31 o 30` 35.2`` 34 o 25` 10.6``6 Esheikh Ejlein 31 o 29` 53.9`` 34 o 24` 32.4``7 Esheikh Ejlein (Marina Resort) 31 o 28` 10.4`` 34 o 22` 52.2``8 South Wadi Gaza 31 o 26` 55.1`` 34 o 21` 38.4``9 Deir El Balah (Sonista Hotel) 31 o 24` 18.3`` 34 o 18` 49.8``10 Khan Younis 31 o 23` 14.9`` 34 o 17` 33.3``11 Khan Younis 31 o 20` 53.4`` 34 o 14` 54.2``12 Rafah Border 31 o 19` 31.0`` 34 o 13` 15.8``Table 1. Locations of beach sediment stations.