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The Gaza Strip (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː z ə / ⓘ; [11] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣaz.za]), also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine.
The demographic statistics of The World Factbook and the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics estimated that the collective Palestinian (including Israeli Arabs) population in the region of Palestine, including Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, amounted to 5.79 million people in 2017.
*** Source: Peace Now Settlement Watch for 31.12.2001 **** After evacuation by the Israeli government, in which all Israeli settlers in Gaza were removed; Settlement Date Sources. The first date is given by the Settlement Division of the Zionist Organization; The second date is given by the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria ...
Shwartz, who was born in Israel but lives in Texas, wore a military-style dog tag necklace engraved with a square script that translates to "My heart is captured in Gaza" in honor of the hostages ...
Around 350,000 of the 2.2 million Gazans are homeless. Blockaded by Egypt and Israel, they have nowhere to go. We know what will happen next – a humanitarian disaster on an unimaginable scale.
Born in a refugee camp in 1962, his family displaced from the Palestinian village of Al-Majdal – in what is now the Israeli city of Ashkelon – Sinwar was “a symbol of the Palestinian people ...
Arab/Palestinian citizens of Israel may refer to themselves by a wide range of terms. Each of these names, while referring to the same group of people, connotes a different balance in what is often a multilayered identity assigning varying levels of priority or emphasis to the various dimensions which may be historic-geographic ("Palestine (region)"), "national" or ethnoreligious (Palestinian ...
Asked about the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) offensive and the displacement of Gazans, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter told Israel's Channel 12 on Nov. 11: "This is Gaza's Nakba ...