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Gaza Strip

قطاع غزة
Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah
Banner o the Gaza Strip
Palestinian flag
Location o the Gaza Strip
Status • Unner the Palestinian Authority accordin tae the Oslo Accords[1]

 • De facto Admeenistratit bi Hamas syne Julie 2007.

 • Claimed bi the State o Palestinea
Caipital
and largest city
Gaza City
31°31′N 34°27′E / 31.517°N 34.450°E / 31.517; 34.450
Offeecial leidsArabic
Ethnic groups
  • Arab
  •  ∟ Palestinian
  •  ∟ Palestinian bedouin
Demonym(s)Gazan
Palestinian
Aurie
• Total
365 km2 (141 sq mi)[2]
Population
• End 2015 estimate
1.85 million[3]
• Density
5,046/km2 (13,069.1/sq mi)
Currency
  • Israeli new shekelb (ILS)
  • (see an aw Palestinian siller)
Time zoneUTC+2 (Palestine Staundart Time)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (Palestine Simmer Time)
Cawin code+970
  1. The State o Palestine is recognised bi 137 members o the Unitit Naitions.
  2. Uised syne 1986; as in Israel, replaced the auld Israeli shekel (1980–1985) an the Israeli lira (1967–1980).

The Gaza Strip (Arabic: قطاع غزة‎ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah, IPA: [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣazza]) is a territory on the eastren coast o the Mediterranean Sea that mairches Egyp on the soothwast (11 km) an Israel on the east an north (51 km (32 mi)). It is 41 kilometre (25 mi) lang, an frae 6 tae 12 kilometre (3.7 tae 7.5 mi) wide, wi a tot area o 365 square kilometre (141 sq mi).[4] The population o the Gaza Strip is aboot 1.7 million fowk.[5] The population is maistly Sunni Muslim. Wi a yeirly growth rate o aboot 3.2%, the Gaza Strip haes the 7t heichest population growth rate in the warld.[5]

The Gaza Strip acquired its current northren an eastren mairches efter the cessation o fechtin in the 1948 war, confirmt bi the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement on 24 Februar 1949.[6] Airticle V o the Agreement declarit that the demarcation line wis tae nae be an internaitional mairch. The Gaza Strip continued tae be occupied bi Egyp. At first Gaza Strip wis offeecially admeenistered bi the Aw-Palestine Govrenment, estaiblisht bi the Arab League in September 1948. Frae the dissolution o the Aw-Palestine Govrenment in 1959 til 1967, the Gaza Strip wis directly admeenistered bi an Egyptian militar govrenor. Israel capturt the Gaza Strip frae Egyp in the Sax-Day War in 1967. Pursuant tae the Oslo Accords signt in 1993, the Palestinian Authority becam the admeenistrative body that govrened Palestinian population centres. Israel maintainit control o the airspace, territorial watters an mairch crossins apairt frae the laund mairch wi Egyp. Israel widrew frae Gaza in 2005. Syne Julie 2007, follaein the 2006 Palestinian legislative election an follaein the Hamas takeover in 2007, Hamas haes functioned as the de facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, formin an alternative Hamas Govrenment in Gaza.

The Gaza Strip forms pairt o the Palestinian territories,[7][8][9][10] nou claimit bi the State o Palestine.

References

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  1. ↑ "Mideast accord: the overview; Rabin and Arafat sign accord ending Israel's 27-year hold on Jericho and the Gaza Strip". Chris Hedges, New York Times, 5 Mey 1994.
  2. ↑ The Gaza Strip: The Humanitarian Impact of the Blockade Archived 17 Julie 2015 at the Wayback Machine. UN OCHA, July 2015. "1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are ‘locked in’, denied free access to the remainder of the occupied Palestinian territory and the outside world." Available at Fact Sheets Archived 2016-03-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Table 3: Projected Population in the State of Palestine by Governorate, End Year 2015 Archived 2020-05-08 at the Wayback Machine. PCBS, Palestinians at the End of 2015, p. 36. Source: Archived 2019-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Arie Arnon, Israeli Policy towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Economic Dimension, 1967-2007. MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Volume 61, No. 4, AUTUMN 2007 (p. 575)
  5. 1 2 Gaza Strip Archived 2019-09-16 at the Wayback Machine Entry at the CIA World Factbook
  6. ↑ Egypt Israel Armistice Agreement Archived 2014-05-25 at the Wayback Machine UN Doc S/1264/Corr.1 23 February 1949
  7. ↑ "Palestinian Territories". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2009.
  8. ↑ "Occupied Palestinian Territory". European Commission. Archived frae the original on 28 Februar 2009. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2009.
  9. ↑ "Israel, the occupied territories and the autonomous territories — ICRC maps". ICRC. Archived frae the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2009.
  10. ↑ "Country profile: Israel and Palestinian territories". London: BBC. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2009.
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