Gaza Strip
self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest, Israel on the east and north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Its capital and largest city is Gaza City.
The territorial boundaries were established by the Green Line of the 1949 Armistice Agreements at the conclusion of the 1948 Palestine war, at which time Gaza was controlled by the Kingdom of Egypt. During that period, the All-Palestine Protectorate, also known as All-Palestine, was established with limited recognition, and it became a refuge for Palestinians who fled or were expelled by Zionist forces in the Nakba. In the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip among other territories, initiating a decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian territories. The mid-1990s Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a limited governing authority, initially led by the secular party Fatah until its electoral defeat in 2006 to the Sunni Islamist Hamas. Hamas would then take over the governance of Gaza in the Battle of Gaza the next year, subsequently warring with Israel.
The restrictions on movement and goods in Gaza imposed by Israel date back to the early 1990s. In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew its military forces from Gaza, dismantled its settlements, and implemented a temporary blockade of Gaza.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39760. VIAF identifies the subject as 10145243768874441938. The Library of Congress control number is sh85053589. Authority coordinates are 31.450, 34.400. 10 of 11 selected statements include explicit references; 9 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1948, 1967 and 2006.
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