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The Old Town of Gaza (1862–1863). Picture by Francis Frith The known history of Gaza spans 4,000 years. Gaza was ruled, destroyed and repopulated by various dynasties, empires, and peoples. Originally a Canaanite settlement, it came under the control of the ancient Egyptians for roughly 350 years before being conquered and becoming one of the Philistines' principal cities. Gaza became part ...
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]
Before the Six-Day War, the movement for an independent Palestine received a boost in 1964 when the Palestine Liberation Organization was established. Its goal, as stated in the Palestinian National Covenant was to create a Palestinian state in the whole British Mandate, a statement which nullified Israel's right to exist .
Meanwhile, the before and after images of Atatra in northwest Gaza show nearly an entire neighborhood reduced to rubble. After two weeks of devastating air raids, Israeli troops and tanks launched ...
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi Mosque in Gaza City. - Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies Correction : An earlier version of this story misidentified the Al Gharbi Mosque.
The pictures filmed before Oct. 7 show schools, mosques and churches, and the 14th century Barquq Islamic fortress. Gaza, which lies along the Mediterranean coast, has long been under an Israeli ...
The territory of the Mandatory Palestine was divided between the State of Israel, the Transjordan and the All-Palestine Government in Gaza, under prefecture of Egypt. During and after the war about 711,000 Palestinian Arabs became displaced and refugees. 800,000–1,000,000 Jews living in Muslim countries left or were expelled during or after ...
Hospitals in Gaza are ‘at capacity’ with only 10 to 12 hours of fuel left in the besieged enclave Before and after aerial photos show the deadly destruction of Gaza Skip to main content