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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.
Gaza, 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.
3 days 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.
Aug 7, 2022 · Gaza City. Gaza City is the largest and most populous city within the Gaza Strip, with more than 700,000 residents. Rimal, Shujaiya and Tel al-Hawa are among its most well-known neighbourhoods.
Oct 15, 2023 · What is Gaza? Gaza is a narrow strip of land, only about 25 miles long and seven miles wide – just over twice the size of Washington DC. To its west lies the Mediterranean Sea, to its north and...
Mar 22, 2024 · Having cut Gaza in two, the Israelis pushed further into Gaza City, where they faced resistance from Hamas.
Dec 12, 2023 · Israeli forces are now concentrating their ground offensive on Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s largest city, raising the possibility that the destruction seen in northern Gaza could soon be ...
The Gaza Strip ( / ˈɡɑːzə / ⓘ; [10] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣaz.za] ), or simply Gaza, is a polity and the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank ). On the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north.
Oct 9, 2023 · The Gaza Strip refers to a narrow strip of land wedged between Israel and Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea that is roughly the size of Washington, D.C. Occupied in turn by the Ottoman Empire and...
Nov 17, 2021 · Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages on Gaza, an impoverished and densely packed area of two million people, killed at least 230 people, including 65 children, and wounded 1,620 as of...
