Hamam al-Sammara — "the Bath of the Samaritans" — was the only functioning hammam left in Gaza, a small public bathhouse in the Zaytun Quarter of the Old City. The current building dates to the Mamluk period in the fourteenth century, though baths on the same site are recorded centuries earlier. Visitors entered through a low domed reception room into a series of steam chambers heated by a wood-fired furnace, with marble basins and traditional scrubbing platforms.
The hamam was still operating commercially as recently as the early 2020s, drawing local men on alternating days and the rare foreign visitor curious about a working medieval bathhouse. Its current condition after the war is uncertain.