Palestine recently attacked Israel on October 7 and brutally killed over 14,000 people, and now Israel is ready to strike back at Hamas.
A total of 2,450 people were killed in the air strikes on Gaza. After this, Israel is ready to build up military equipment and troops on its border with the Gaza Strip. Gaza is actually controlled by Hamas. Israel has warned more than 1.1 million people in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate, according to the United Nations.
Israel is working on a ground offensive in the belt. Here’s everything you need to know about Gaza.
Understanding Gaza
The narrow land strip of Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. The Gaza Strip or simply Gaza is over seven miles wide and over twenty-five miles long. We can take the size of Gaza into account by imagining it as twice the total size of Washington.
The Gaza Strip has Israel to the north and east, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Egypt lies to the south of Israel.
It is a Palestinian territory bordering Jordan.
The people of the Gaza Strip
As stated above, the Gaza Strip is densely populated with around 2 million people living in it. Data from the World Health Organization reveals that most of those 2 million people are actually young. More than 50 percent of the country’s population is under the age of 18.
Speaking of the religion followed by its people, almost all (98-99 percent) of the people in Gaza are Muslim, according to the CIA World Factbook. The rest of the people are Christians.
More than a million people in Gaza are actually refugees. There are a total of eight recognized Palestinian refugee camps, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The agency helps Palestine.
History of Gaza
The history of Gaza was very rich. The area has been inhabited for thousands of years. The first historical event that people talk about regarding Gaza is that the region was an Egyptian base. Second, the site was also a Philistine royal city. Third, it is also the place where the Hebrew Samson died.
From the 16th to the 20th century, Gaza fell under the Ottoman Empire. However, the site was later taken over by the British Post Office in the First World War.
In 1947, the UN decided to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into two separate countries, one for the Arab population and one for the Jews.
The founder of Israel, David Ben Gurion, proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Over 70,000 Palestinians or more were expelled or fled. Most of them were refused return.
After Israel declared independence, Egypt attacked the newly independent state across the Gaza Strip. Israel emerged victorious in this attack, but Gaza remained under Egyptian control.
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