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governorate
[guhv-er-ner-it, -nuh-reyt, -uh-ner-, -uh-nuh-]
noun
an administrative division of a country, especially Egypt.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of governorate1
Example Sentences
That does not include numbers from hospitals located in the North Gaza Strip Governorate because of the difficulty of accessing the area, it adds.
The statistics do not include the North Gaza Governorate, where the last hospital closed on Thursday after the Israeli military ordered its evacuation.
The last hospital providing health services in the North Gaza governorate is out of service after the Israeli military ordered its immediate evacuation, the hospital's director has said.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, said the closure of al-Awda meant there was no remaining functioning hospital in the North Gaza governorate, "severing a critical lifeline for the people there".
On Monday the IDF said people in Khan Younis governorate should leave ahead of an "unprecedented attack" in one of the largest such evacuation orders in recent months.
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