1 day ago · Gaza Strip, territory occupying 140 square miles (363 square km) along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula.The Gaza Strip is unusual in being a densely settled area not recognized as a de jure part of any extant country. The first accurate census, conducted in September 1967, showed a population smaller than had previously been estimated by the United Nations Relief and ...

The Gaza Strip, [e] also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; ... Prior to Israel's establishment, the road provided linkage between Egypt and Lebanon. [338] The Port of Gaza has been an important and active port since antiquity.

2 days ago · President Trump, speaking to Fox News, reiterated his plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and said its population would be resettled in a “permanent place” elsewhere. By Claire Moses and Shawn ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Fragile truces: Though Israel’s cease-fires in Gaza and Lebanon were tested over the weekend, ... an occupation zone in the Gaza Strip that Israel set up at the onset of the war. And the Israeli ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Lebanon later agreed to extend the deadline to Feb. 18. Despite that, residents on Monday tried to return to their villages and Israeli troops opened fire, killing two people and wounding 17 others across several southern villages, according to the Health Ministry. ... Gaza Strip — Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed into the most ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Gaza Strip, Arabic Qiṭāʿ Ghazzah Hebrew Reẓuʿat ʿAzza, Territory, southeastern Mediterranean Sea coast. Area: 141 sq mi (365 sq km). ... It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, to the northeast by Syria, to the east and southeast by Jordan, to the southwest by Egypt, and to the west by the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem is the seat of ...

19 hours ago · Lebanon’s Diaspora Returns; Trump’s Gaza Proposal ... telling reporters on Air Force One that the strip of land was “a big real estate site” that the United States was “going to own ...

May 30, 2018 · The Gaza Strip, the 140-square-mile ... Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. At the end of this conflict, known as the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt was given control of the Gaza Strip. ... Palestinians ...

Oct 9, 2023 · The Gaza Strip refers to a narrow strip of land wedged between Israel and Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea that is roughly the size of Washington, D.C. Occupied in turn by the Ottoman Empire and ...

Nov 13, 2024 · Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past day, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut's southern suburbs and killed 33 people in the country on Tuesday.