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1 day ago · Gaza Strip, territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. It is densely populated and impoverished, in part due to the ongoing political situation of the region. It became a center of tension in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when Hamas seized control of the area in 2007.
1 day ago · Gaza, [b] also called Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip. Prior to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, it was the most populous city in the State of Palestine, with 590,481 inhabitants in 2017. Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC, [6] Gaza has been dominated by different peoples and empires throughout its history.
5 days ago · Gaza Strip with Israeli-controlled borders and limited fishing zone, as of December 2012 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.
1 day ago · Rafah, city along the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt that, for most of the 20th and into the 21st century, has been bisected with an eastern half in the Gaza area and a western half in Egypt. In 2023–24 Gazans displaced by the Israel-Hamas War crowded into the city as it became the final refuge for both civilians and what Israeli ...
1 day ago · Gaza Strip: Palestinian National Authority (de jure) Controlled by Hamas (de facto) Witnesses to the Oslo II Accord: State of Palestine: 140 UN member states: West Bank: Palestinian enclaves (Areas A and B) Palestinian National Authority and Israeli military: Area C
3 days ago · More than 140 solid waste dump sites are sprawled across the narrow 41km-long Gaza Strip, according to satellite analysis of Planet Labs imagery by the Financial Times, Dutch NGO PAX and Marilena ...
