Israel will help refurbish the graves of Jewish soldiers who fought with British during World War I at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery in Gaza. Ibrahim Jaredah, the keeper of the cemetery said "there's about 4,000 soldiers. Some of them Jews, Indians, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders. Israel wanted to remove the bodies but couldn't." The Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, often referred to as the British War Cemetery is in the Tuffah neighborhood.
A monument at the cemetery says that the fallen soldiers fought in Allied battles against the Ottoman Empire during WWI. Among those buried in the cemetery in Gaza lie a man named Gutfreund, and another named Joseph Bernstein. Jaredah said he has maintained the cemetery for more than 55 years.
Gaza also has an ancient Jewish cemetery which contains the graves of Rabbi Israel ben Moses Najara and other members of the historic Jewish community of the Gaza Strip. The cemeteries in the Jewish communities of Gush Katif were dug up and reinterred during the 2005 Disengagement.