A brief civil war between the two groups had broken out in Gaza when, apparently under a U.S.-backed plan, Fatah contested Hamas’s administration. Hamas emerged the victor and expelled Fatah-allied officials and members of the PA's security apparatus from the Strip, and has remained the ...
This small piece of land is located between Israel and Egypt, and it has been under Israeli occupation since 1967. For three decades now, Palestinians living in Gaza have gone through a series of wars with their occupier, Israel. In the latest war alone- which ended in 2014 – over 2200 ...
Israeli leaders continue to insist that Hamas cannot remain in Gaza, but, while releasing hostages, the group has taken every opportunity to demonstrate the control it continues to exert despite the loss of much of its former leadership and thousands of fighters during the war....
has been a battleground in the ongoing Arab-Israeli Conflict since the 1940s. After the 1st Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949, Egypt annexed Gaza. In the 1956 and 1967 wars between Israel and Egypt, Israeli forces conquered the crowded urban Gaza area, returning it to Egyptian control after th...
It was captured by Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. In 2005, Israel pulled out its troops along with thousands of Jews who had settled in the territory. However, Israel still exercises control over most of Gaza’s land borders, as well as its territorial waters and airspace. Gaza...
More than 100 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign nationals have also been taken hostage by Hamas, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu todeclare that his country is at war.Israel says it is working to rescue the hostages and has regained control of areas outside Gaza after ...
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Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif) defended the Harris campaign’s position on the Israel-Hamas war in the wake of criticism that the Democratic National Convention does not have a speaker from the Uncommitted National Movement to speak out for Palestinians. “She has been very clear about ho...
The population rise during the current century is visualised in the “spike” map above, showing population distribution and density for the two territories in 2000 and 2020. Gaza has long been more crowded, but that difference has grown markedly over the past two decades. ...
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