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In 2023 approximately 2.1 million Palestinians lived in the Gaza Strip, [34] around 1.6 million of them UN-registered refugees. [47] The Strip's population has continued to increase since that time, one of the main reasons being a total fertility rate of 3.38 children per woman (2023 est).
The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km 2 (141 sq mi). [ 27 ] [ 9 ] With around 2 million Palestinians [ 9 ] on approximately 365 km 2 (141 sq mi) of land, Gaza has one of the world's highest population densities .
By 2022, the population of the Gaza strip had increased to an estimated 2,375,259, [155] corresponding to a density of more than 6,507 people per square kilometre. Both Israeli and Palestinian statistics include Arab residents of East Jerusalem in their reports.
Can people leave and enter the Gaza strip? ... Palestinians in Gaza have been under a 16-year blockade (AFP via Getty Images) ... “2.3 million people in 140 square miles, half the population are ...
Today, with over 2 million Palestinians living within roughly 140 square miles, it is “one of the world’s most densely populated territories,” according to Gisha, an Israeli nongovernmental ...
The U.N. estimates that most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now confined to an area of roughly 15 square miles — about two-thirds the size of Manhattan — causing crowded conditions and a ...
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
This situation is said to be accepted by the Palestinian population insofar as it is viewed as a temporary arrangement. [147] Since the Battle of Gaza (2007), the two separate territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, are divided into a Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip and a Fatah civil leadership in the autonomous areas of the West Bank ...