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Self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
Countries, international organizations and legal bodies commonly call the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” because they are parts of the former British Man...
The Gaza Strip’s governance since 1948 reflects two distinct transfers of control: Egypt administered Gaza after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and Israel seized the strip in the 1967 Six‑Day War, establi...
Before the , the consensus of multiple demographic sources places the population of at roughly people, with commonly used official figures clustering around 2.1 million (PCBS/-based estimates) and a s...
The allegation that "the Trump administration is carrying out " must be split into two related but separate claims: one about its public proposals and influence on actions regarding Gaza, where human-...
Donald Trump publicly proposed transforming the Gaza Strip into a tourist-oriented destination during early February 2025, repeatedly framing the idea as a U.S.-led redevelopment he called a “Riviera”...
A two‑state solution as commonly discussed would place the core of a Palestinian state on territory Israel occupied in the 1967 war — the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip — with...
The i–Palestinian conflict traces back to competing national movements — Zionism and Arab nationalism — that collided in late 19th and early 20th century as Jewish immigration increased under and then...
The term "Occupied Palestinian Territory" (OPT) most commonly refers to the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Six‑Day War and treated by the ...
The term “Palestinian territories” commonly refers to the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem — areas widely described in UN, UK and humanitarian maps as the Occupied Palestinian Territories ...
The Gaza Strip is in a fragmented, transitional political state: a November 2025 UN Security Council resolution endorses an international stabilisation framework and a U.S.-backed “peace plan” that en...
The 1967 Six-Day War ended Egyptian administration of the Gaza Strip when Israeli forces captured and began occupying Gaza, a shift confirmed across the provided analyses and reference summaries; and ...
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War fundamentally redrew Palestine’s land borders: fighting that followed Israel’s declaration of independence produced 1949 armistice lines (commonly called the ) that left Isra...
The October 7, 2023 assaults originated in the Gaza Strip and were carried out by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in a coordinated incursion into southern Israel that killed roughly 1,200 peo...
Available reporting shows large, but varying tallies of Palestinian fatalities across the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) for the period 7 October 2023–Nov 2025. Healt...
the lived under ian military administration: Egypt controlled governance and security but never annexed the territory or granted Gazans Egyptian citizenship, instead leaving them in a legally ambiguou...
On , 2023, was the target of a large-scale, coordinated assault launched from the Strip by and allied militant groups that killed roughly 1,200 people, took hundreds of hostages, and triggered the ens...
the was inhabited mainly by — a mix of urban residents in , villagers and Bedouin in the hinterland — with a small Christian minority in the city and only very limited Jewish presence in the immediate...
— were the primary inhabitants of the long before : Gaza was part of and then , contained Palestinian towns and districts, and became home to large numbers of Palestinian refugees after the war; it re...
From 1948 until the , the was administered by under direct military rule rather than annexation, with intermittent interruption during the when occupied Gaza for several months . Cairo did not grant G...
are the people who live in — a densely populated, predominantly Palestinian Arab enclave on the eastern Mediterranean — shaped by decades of conflict, , displacement, and resilient social life; most a...