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Israel surrounded and invaded Gaza, [130] heavily bombing the city. [131] Early in 2009, a ceasefire was reached and Israel withdrew from the Strip. [132] The war resulted in more than 1,000 Gazan deaths. [133] In 2014, Israel initiated a war against Hamas, aiming to stop its rocket fire. [134] Israel bombed the Strip and city, and eventually ...
Gaza City, situated along the Mediterranean coast, was part of the Seleucid Empire during the Hellenistic period, and later came under Roman rule. [3] During the Hellenistic period, which began with the conquests of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century BCE, there was a large Jewish population in nearby Judea, and Jewish communities also existed in other parts of the region.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to ...
Israel’s military advance on the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and Egyptian Sinai in 1967 sparked fresh bloodshed and saw the UN Security Council pass Resolution 242 ordering it to ...
The Gaza Strip, a mere 25 miles long and six miles wide, located on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Israel and home to approximately two million Palestinians, holds a prominent place in ...
After the war, only two parts of Palestine remained in Arab control: the West Bank (and East-Jerusalem), annexed by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip occupied by Egypt, which were conquered by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. Despite international objections, Israel started to establish settlements in these occupied territories. [1]
Morris recommends this “history that describes the origins of the 1956 Israel-Egypt war, focusing on the Gaza Strip and its majority Palestinian refugee population, anti-Israeli terrorism and ...
1967: Six-Day War: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan. 280,000 to 325,000 Palestinians displaced from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. 1973: Yom Kippur War: A coalition of Arab states surprise attacks Israel in an attempt to regain the territories they lost in the Six-Day War.