Gaza Strip

1 day ago - Later, during the Six-Day War, Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip, initiating its 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 ...

October 14, 2025 - About a million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem came under Israel's control. ... Israel's occupation of these areas has lasted until this day. Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 and returned the Sinai.

The Gaza Strip is a small area of land in the Middle East, between Israel, the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt. The Gaza Strip is part of the State of Palestine.

October 15, 2025 - Jordan and Egypt controlled the rest of the territory assigned by resolution 181 to the Arab State. In the 1967 war, Israel occupied these territories (Gaza Strip and the West Bank) including East Jerusalem, which was subsequently annexed by Israel.

2 days 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.

3 weeks ago - We cannot have this fragile progress undermined by policies that do not respect the lives, dignity and future of Israelis and Palestinians equally. For the most reliable updates on the situation, visit the UN OCHA website. Donate to our Gaza Emergency Appeal. ... Dec. 7, 2023 · Millions of people including children are facing starvation and need humanitarian assistance. Save lives and donate to the Gaza emergency appeal. ... Dec. 22, 2025 · Here’s how you can help people in Gaza recover from the conflict. ... Dec. 22, 2025 · Oxfam partners are trying to get food, clean water, and medicine to desperate families.

December 4, 2025 - The Gaza Strip is a 141-square-mile Palestinian enclave located near Israel’s southwestern tip. After the Israeli withdrawal in 2005, the coastal territory has been under the control of the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group.

December 3, 2025 - Hamas’ security forces have also committed grave abuses against Palestinians in Gaza, including arbitrary arrests, summary executions and torture. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, an occupying power is prohibited from transferring parts of its civilian population into occupied territory, also known as “settler implantation.” Seizures and demolitions of Palestinian and Bedouin land and property leave communities at risk of forced evictions, arbitrary displacement and forcible transfer. Israel’s permanent occupation endangers the cultural existence of the Palestinian people and violates their right to self-determination.

4 days ago - Israel withdrew from Gaza in its unilateral disengagement in 2005, but the territory is still considered to be under military occupation and has been blockaded by Israel. In 2007, internal divisions between political factions led to a takeover ...

October 14, 2025 - Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained · The Gaza Strip is a 41km (25-mile) long and 10km-wide territory between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. It was part of a proposed Arab state under the original UN partition ...

5 days ago - Gaza is the only coastal part of the State of Palestine. In 2000, exploration license were granted by the government to British Gas Group. However, the project was interrupted during the 2000–2005 uprisings, where supportive infrastructure, ...

2 weeks ago - In November, for example, the United States tried to create “Alternative Safe Communities” where Israeli-vetted Palestinians could live on the Israeli side of the separation line in Gaza. But this proposal stalled almost immediately in the face of difficult questions about whether Palestinians in these communities could cross freely between parts of the strip respectively controlled by Israel and Hamas.

October 3, 2025 - Clear majorities of Americans also express at least some concern about Hamas attacking Israel in the future (74%) and the Israeli military forcing Palestinians to leave Gaza (69%). About four-in-ten say they are extremely or very concerned about these possibilities. These concerns are widespread among both Republicans and Democrats. However, there are partisan differences in the level of some concerns:

Answer (1 of 3): Gaza and west bank are the last 2 areas of occupied palestine. Israel has control over them both, they both had the colonizer settlements, both was localy run by the PLO ( Palestinian Liberation Organization), and hamas then ...

October 22, 2025 - Gaza, however, is separated from the rest of Palestine. At their closest points, Gaza and the West Bank (Hebron) are 50 kilometers (30 miles) apart, but Palestinians need Israeli permission to pass through Israel.

January 4, 2025 - This section of the report covers the West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem territories that Israel occupied during the June 1967 war. In 2017, the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Language in this report is not meant to convey a position on any final-status issues to be negotiated between the parties to the conflict, including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem or the borders between Israel and any future Palestinian state.

January 4, 2025 - The Occupied Territories, which include the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, are subject to the jurisdiction of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), with the division of responsibilities overlapping in much of the territory.