Gaza Strip

2 weeks 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 ...

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.

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October 15, 2025 - In 2003, the Quartet (US, EU, Russia, and the UN) released a Road Map to a two-State solution. An unofficial Geneva peace accord was promulgated by prominent Israelis and Palestinians in 2003. In 2005, Israel withdrew its settlers and troops from Gaza while retaining control over its borders, seashore and airspace.

1 week 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 ...

1 week ago - The 1948 Palestine war saw the ... Palestinians as the Nakba ('catastrophe'). In the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which had been held by Jordan and Egypt respectively....

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.

October 14, 2025 - The West Bank - land between Israel and the River Jordan - is home to an estimated three million Palestinians. Along with East Jerusalem and Gaza, it is part of what are widely known as the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Map of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. Ecrusized, influenced by user Rr016. - Own work, Israeli military presence in Gaza Strip citing Institute for the Study of War & Critical Threats Project. Maximum Palestinian advance citing NYT & WSJ. Made using OpenTopoMap data.

What is Palestine? Palestine is a country in the Middle East composed of two regions: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The West Bank borders Israel, Jordan, and the Dead Sea, while the Gaza Strip borders Egypt, Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea.

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October 22, 2025 - The population of the West Bank is 3.25 million, only about 1 million people more than in Gaza, meaning the population density is significantly lower. Palestine is made up of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

1 week ago - Over the year, Israel has launched at least 8,332 attacks across Palestine – an average of 25 a day. This includes at least 7,024 attacks across Gaza and 1,308 across the occupied West Bank.

- Shows map overviews of economic, historical, political, and ethnic information on the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

6 days 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 11, 2023 - The fighting ended in 1949 with a series of ceasefires, producing armistice lines along Israel's frontiers with neighbouring states, and creating the boundaries of what became known as the Gaza Strip (occupied by Egypt) and East Jerusalem and ...

The map provides information on Palestinian communities, Israeli settlements, checkpoints, the Separation Barrier, agricultural gates in the Barrier, and more.

Get the latest developments as the war between Israel and Hamas unfolds.