Sheikh Ijlin is a neighborhood in southern Gaza City near the coastal road. On 18 November 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the neighborhood, destroying the offices of the Preventive Security Force of the Palestinian National Authority. With no sewage leakage into the open ocean after an 2022 internationally-backed sewage cleanup, the neighborhood's beaches became popular in Gaza City. In December 2023 the New York Times reported that Israel had carried out necroviolence by razing six cemeteries in the Gaza Strip including that of Sheikh Ijlin.