Al-Rashid Street (Gaza)

Al-Rashid Street (Arabic: شَارِعُ الرَّشِيدِ, romanized: Šāriʿ al-Rašīd; also known as Al-Rashid Coastal Road, from al-Rashid "the Just", one of the names of God in Islam, roughly meaning "guide on the right path") is one of two main roads through the Gaza Strip. While the Saladin Road runs as the main thoroughfare in the center of the Gaza Strip, the Al-Rashid Street follows the coastline for almost its entire length of approximately 45 km from the Israeli border in the north to just before the Egyptian border, never straying more than two kilometers from the coast. It is also called Gaza's "street that never sleeps". It has been the subject of much shelling since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

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