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The Gaza Strip is a stretch of land surrounded by Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. It is 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide. Home to about 2.3 million people, it is one of the most densely ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Gaza–Israel conflict Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Arab–Israeli conflict Map of the Gaza Strip Date 15 May 1948 – present (76 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location Gaza Strip and Israel Result Ongoing Gaza blockade since 2007 Gaza war since 2023 Belligerents All ...
In Gaza, a densely populated strip where Hamas is headquartered, Israeli strikes have been targeting old Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah, killing hundreds and injuring thousands.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Gaza Strip قطاع غزة Palestinian flag Location of the Gaza Strip within the claimed territory of the State of Palestine Status Under the Palestinian National Authority according to the Oslo Accords De facto administered by Hamas since 14 June 2007, with an ongoing military operation in the ...
Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, of which most were civilians. [1] [2]In 1967, following the Six-Day War fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan), Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip which had formerly been occupied by Egypt. [3]
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 war [p] has been fought between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [q] in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. The fifth war since 2008 in the Gaza–Israel conflict, it is the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, [74] and sparked an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis.
The Palestinian Gaza Strip has been a frontline of conflict with Israel for decades and cut off from much of the outside world for 16 years. The Gaza Strip's boundaries were established in the ...