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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.
The Gaza Strip ( / ˈɡɑːzə / ⓘ; [11] 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.
2 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.
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.
4 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.
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 ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Having cut Gaza in two, the Israelis pushed further into Gaza City, where they faced resistance from Hamas.
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...
Gaza City is the most populated city in the Gaza Strip and the battle started on 30 October 2023, when Israel and Hamas clashed in Gaza City. According to Oxfam , there are about 500,000 Palestinians , along with 200 Israelis and other captives, currently trapped in a "siege within a siege" in northern Gaza.
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...
Follow the latest news on the Israel Gaza war. Get live updates, maps, verified video reports and expert analysis from BBC journalists on the ground.
Feb 21, 2024 · Gaza City, Gaza Strip – More than four months of Israel’s war on Gaza have left it unrecognisable. In the streets, famine is a reality for nearly all the besieged population while the smell...
Oct 7, 2023 · The Israeli military has continued to pummel the Gaza Strip, and particularly northern Gaza, with strikes even as ground troops have moved toward Gaza City over the past week and a half.
Nov 1, 2023 · Located in the north of the Gaza Strip, Gaza City was the most densely populated part of the strip before the war began, but on 13 October Israel ordered civilians in northern Gaza to move...
Oct 9, 2023 · The Gaza Strip comprises five governorates: North Gaza, Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah. North Gaza extends for 10km (6 miles) and shares the only crossing into Israel...
Nov 2, 2023 · Israeli forces on Thursday encircled Gaza City - the Gaza Strip's main city - in their assault on Hamas, the military said, but the Palestinian militant group resisted their drive with...
2 days ago · Detailing strikes on Ash Shuja neighbourhood in Gaza City, the report’s authors noted that the span of destruction measured approximately 130 metres across, destroying 15 buildings.The extent of the damage to buildings and the craters indicated that approximately nine 2,000lb GBU-31 bombs were used, OHCHR said, adding that at least 60 people were reported killed. “Israel's choices of methods and means of conducting hostilities in Gaza since 7 October, including through the extensive use ...
Nov 7, 2023 · GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Israel said on Tuesday its forces were operating deep in Gaza City in their battle to wipe out Hamas in the Palestinian enclave and said the Islamist militant...
Nov 3, 2023 · Israeli ground forces are advancing on Gaza City, the largest and most densely packed population center in the Palestinian enclave, satellite imagery and videos from open and official sources...
3 hours ago · The battle for Rafah, in its seventh week as Israeli forces push westward, has left a trail of destruction. An image from a social media video made for GLZ, Israeli army radio, shows fire damage ...
Oct 16, 2023 · BBC. Mohamed Ibrahim is sharing a flat with his extended family in a suburb of Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have left northern Gaza as Israel readies for an expected ground...
Nov 6, 2023 · Israeli troops have encircled Gaza City in heavy fighting with Hamas militants, the miiltary says, as the Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000. U.S. and Arab leaders are raising pressure on Israel to ease its siege and at least briefly halt its attacks in order to aid civilians.
23 hours ago · Item 1 of 5 A view of a destroyed building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the Rafah Crossing, Gaza, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released on June ...
20 hours ago · The Gaza health ministry said the bodies of 30 people killed in Israeli raids arrived at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Friday in what it described as a “difficult and brutal day”. Keep ...
Feb 15, 2024 · Gaza City: Drone video shows extensive destruction in seaside city. Footage taken this week by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) shows a trail of devastation in Gaza's largest...
6 days ago · Anas Baba for NPR. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Parrots, baboons and lions joined an exodus of nearly one million humans fleeing the Israeli invasion of the city of Rafah last month. Fathi Jumaa ...
May 11, 2024 · Casualties mount as Israeli troops attack Gaza City’s Zeitoun district as ‘rehabilitated’ Hamas fighters engage them.
2 days ago · Asmahan al-Masri and 15 relatives live at a camp in Khan Younis, feet away from piles of rubbish. Across the Gaza Strip, in a landscape newly transformed by war, mountains of stinking rubbish pose ...
