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  1. 1 day ago · Gaza Strip, territory occupying 140 square miles (363 square km) along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza Strip is unusual in being a densely settled area not recognized as a de jure part of any extant country.

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  2. 5 days ago · The Gaza Strip fell to British forces during World War I, becoming a part of the British Mandate of Palestine. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt administered the newly formed Gaza Strip; Israel captured it in the Six-Day War in 1967.

  3. May 15, 2024 · Gaza. Strip. Image. location. 250 feet. Source: Satellite imagery from Planet Labs. By The New York Times. Many Palestinians have been directed to an area along the coast designated by the...

  4. May 8, 2024 · New satellite imagery taken after Israeli forces pushed into Rafah shows widespread damage to the southern Gaza city — including large areas of flattened structures — and clusters of Israeli ...

  5. 3 days ago · Gaza, city and principal urban centre of the Gaza Strip, southwestern Palestine. Formerly the administrative headquarters for the Israeli military forces that occupied the Gaza Strip, the city came under Palestinian control in 2005. Records exist indicating continuous habitation at the site for.

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  6. May 9, 2024 · Updated May 9, 2024 12:02 am ET. Listen to article. (2 minutes) Israel is expanding the war in the Gaza Strip into Hamas’s last stronghold of Rafah, defying the U.S. and threatening to...

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  8. 3 days ago · Map of the West Bank, May 2021, showing Palestinian (green) and Israeli control. The international community regards the Palestinian territories, meaning the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, as territories occupied by Israel.

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