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{{Infobox country
|conventional_long_name = Gaza Strip
|native_name ={{nobold|{{lang|ar|قطاع غزة}}}}<br>''{{Transl|ar|DIN|Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah}}''
|linking_name = the Gaza Strip
|status =  
{{*}}Unner the [[Palestinian Authority]] accordin tae the [[Oslo Accords]]<ref name=nyt_mideast-accord>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/05/world/mideast-accord-overview-rabin-arafat-sign-accord-ending-israel-s-27-year-hold.html?pagewanted=all "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.</ref><br>
{{*}}''De facto'' [[Govrenance o the Gaza Strip|Admeenistratit]] bi [[Hamas]] syne Julie 2007.
{{*}}Claimed bi the [[State o Palestine]]<sup>a</sup>
|image_flag = Flag of Palestine.svg
|flag_caption = Palestinian flag
|image_map = Gz-map2.png
|ethnic_groups = {{Plainlist|
* [[Arabs|Arab]]
* &nbsp;'''∟''' [[Palestinians|Palestinian]]
* &nbsp;'''∟''' [[Palestinian bedouin]]
}}
|demonym = Gazan<br>Palestinian
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|capital = [[Gaza Ceety]]
|coordinates = {{coord|31|31|N|34|27|E|type:city}}
|largest_city=Gaza Ceety
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|official_languages = [[Arabic]]
|area_km2 = 365
|area_sq_mi =
|area_footnote = <ref name=ocha_factsheet_july_2015>[http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_blockade_factsheet_July_2015_english.pdf ''The Gaza Strip: The Humanitarian Impact of the Blockade''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717234752/http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_blockade_factsheet_july_2015_english.pdf |date=17 July 2015 }}. 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 [http://www.ochaopt.org/reports.aspx?id=103&page=1 ''Fact Sheets''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329054638/http://www.ochaopt.org/reports.aspx?id=103&page=1 |date=2016-03-29 }}.</ref>
|population_estimate = 1.85 million<ref name=pcbs_end_2015>[http://pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2176.pdf ''Table 3: Projected Population in the State of Palestine by Governorate, End Year 2015''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508050718/http://pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2176.pdf |date=2020-05-08 }}. PCBS, ''Palestinians at the End of 2015'', p. 36. [http://pcbs.gov.ps/PCBS_2012/Publications.aspx Source:] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126195450/http://pcbs.gov.ps/PCBS_2012/Publications.aspx |date=2019-01-26 }}</ref>
|population_estimate_year = End&nbsp;2015
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|population_density_km2 = 5046
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|currency = {{unbulleted list|{{nowrap|[[Israeli new shekel]]<sup>b</sup> (ILS)}}|(see an aw [[Palestinian siller]])}}
|country_code = PS
|time_zone = [[Palestine Staundart Time]]
|utc_offset = +2
|time_zone_DST = [[Palestine Simmer Time]]
|utc_offset_DST = +3
|calling_code = [[+970]]
|footnote_a = The [[State o Palestine]] is [[Internaitional recogneetion o the State o Palestine#Diplomatic recogneetions|recognised bi 137 members o the Unitit Naitions]].
|footnote_b = Uised syne 1986; as in Israel, replaced the [[auld Israeli shekel]] (1980–1985) an the [[Israeli lira]] (1967–1980).
}}
The '''Gaza Strip''' ({{Lang-ar|قطاع غزة}} ''{{Transl|ar|DIN|Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah}}'', {{IPA-ar|qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣazza|IPA}}) is a territory on the eastren coast o the [[Mediterranean Sea]] that borders [[Egyp]] on the soothwast (11&nbsp;km) an [[Israel]] on the east an north ({{convert|51|km|mi|abbr=on}}). It is {{convert|41|km|mi}} lang, an frae {{convert|6|to|12|km|mi}} wide, wi a tot aurie o {{convert|365|km2|sqmi}}.<ref name=Arnon>Arie Arnon, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130630142150/http://www.econ.bgu.ac.il/facultym/arnona/Israeli_Policy_towards_the_Occupied_Palestinian_Territories_The_Economic_Dimension_1967-2007.pdf ''Israeli Policy towards the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Economic Dimension, 1967-2007'']. MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Volume 61, No. 4, AUTUMN 2007 (p. 575)</ref>
The population o Gaza Strip is aboot 1.7 million fowk.<ref name="Gaza Strip">[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gz.html Gaza Strip] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916035900/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gz.html |date=2019-09-16 }} Entry at the CIA World Factbook</ref>  The population is predominantly [[Sunni Muslim]]. Wi a yearly growth rate o aboot 3.2%, the Gaza Strip haes the 7t heichest [[Leet o kintras bi population growth rate|population growth rate]] in the warld.<ref name="Gaza Strip"/>

The Gaza Strip acquired its current northren an eastren boundaries at the cessation o fichtin in the 1948 war,  confirmed bi the [[1949 Armistice Agreements|Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement]] on 24 Februar 1949.<ref>[http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/9EC4A332E2FF9A128525643D007702E6 Egypt Israel Armistice Agreement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525024736/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/9EC4A332E2FF9A128525643D007702E6 |date=2014-05-25 }} UN Doc S/1264/Corr.1 23 February 1949</ref> Airticle V o the Agreement declared that the demarcation line wis nae tae be an internaitional border. The Gaza Strip continued tae be occupied bi Egyp. At first Gaza Strip wis offeecially admeenistered bi the [[Aw-Palestine Govrenment]], established 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 captured the Gaza Strip frae Egyp in the [[Sax-Day War]] in 1967. Pursuant tae the [[Oslo Accords]] signed in 1993, the [[Palestinian Authority]] acame the admeenistrative body that govrened Palestinian population centers. Israel maintained control o the [[airspace]], [[territorial watters]] an border crossins apairt frae the laund border wi Egyp. Israel [[Israel's unilateral disengagement|widrew]] frae Gaza in 2005. Syne Julie 2007, followin the [[Palestinian legislative election, 2006|2006 Palestinian legislative election]] an followin the [[Battle o Gaza (2007)|Hamas takeover]] in 2007, [[Hamas]] haes functioned as the ''de facto'' ruler in the Gaza Strip, fairmin an alternative [[Hamas Govrenment in Gaza]].

The Gaza Strip fairms pairt o the [[Palestinian territories]],<ref name="PalestinianTerritories-U.S.DeptofState">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/pt/index.htm|title=Palestinian Territories|publisher=U.S. Department of State|accessdate=2009-04-06}}</ref><ref name="EU-OccupiedPalestinianTerritory">{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/occupied_palestinian_territory/index_en.htm|title=Occupied Palestinian Territory|publisher=European Commission|accessdate=2009-04-06|archive-date=2009-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228212035/http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/occupied_palestinian_territory/index_en.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ICRC-map">{{cite web|url=http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/map_israel!OpenDocument|title=Israel, the occupied territories and the autonomous territories&nbsp;— ICRC maps|publisher=ICRC|accessdate=2009-04-06|archive-date=2010-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807074348/http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/map_israel!OpenDocument|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="BBC-Countryprofile">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/803257.stm|title=Country profile: Israel and Palestinian territories|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2009-04-06 | date=15 December 2009 | location=London}}</ref> nou claimed bi the [[State o Palestine]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Sister project links|Gaza Strip}}
*[http://atlas.pcbs.gov.ps/atlas/default.asp Statistical Atlas of Palestine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514171248/http://atlas.pcbs.gov.ps/atlas/default.asp |date=2010-05-14 }} at the [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]].
*[http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/pt/index.htm Palestinian Territories] at the [[United States Department of State]].
*[http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/palestine.htm Gaza Strip] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607085405/http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/palestine.htm |date=2008-06-07 }} at ''UCB Libraries GovPubs''.
*{{Dmoz|Regional/Middle_East/Palestinian_Territory|Gaza Strip}}
*[http://www.gaza.net/ Gaza.net], a directory of Palestinian-related websites.
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/p_refugee_camps.jpg Map of Palestinian Refugee Camps 1993] (UNRWA / CIA / University of Texas, Austin).
*[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gaza-attack Ramattan Live Stream of Gaza City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403054753/http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gaza-attack |date=2013-04-03 }} via UStream.
*[http://gazasiege.org/ GazaSiege.org - Background, News and Analysis on the siege of Gaza]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6754499.stm Hamas In Control of Gaza Strip]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6760975.stm New Palestinian Cabinet Sworn In]
*{{PDFlink|[http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2003/jan/01032003_study.pdf Nutritional Assessment of the West Bank and Gaza Strip]|72.0&nbsp;bytes}}
*[http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-4244,00.html ''Special: Gaza kidnapping'' Israeli News]&nbsp;– Ynetnews English version of [[Yedioth Ahronoth]]
*[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36439 War Enters the Classrooms: the consequences of the Mideast conflict for children of the Gaza Strip] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212155248/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36439 |date=2012-02-12 }}, by [[Inter Press Service]] (February 2007).
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=31.4,34.4&z=10 Gaza Strip at Google Maps]
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/gazastrip91.jpg 1991 Map of the Gaza Strip], shawin roads an Israeli touns.
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/gaza_strip_1999.jpg 1999 Map of the Gaza Strip] (annotated photo).
*[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/gaza_strip_may_2005.jpg 2005 Map of the Gaza Strip] (CIA / University of Texas, Austin).
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20415675 Life in the Gaza Strip] at [[BBC News]].

{{Geographic location
 | Northwest = ''[[Mediterranean Sea]]''
 | North = {{flag|Cyprus}}<br/>''[[Mediterranean Sea]]''
 | Northeast = {{flag|Israel}}
 | West = {{flag|Egypt}}{{·}}''[[Mediterranean Sea]]''
 | Centre = {{flagicon|Palestine}} Gaza Strip
 | East = {{flag|Israel}}
 | Southwest = {{flag|Egypt}}
 | South = {{flag|Egypt}}
 | Southeast = {{flag|Israel}}}}

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