The Gaza Strip has been likened to an "open air prison", ... Hamas says it is a freedom-fighting movement to free Palestinians from occupation and reclaim large parts of Israel.

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 ...

Israel’s military issued Sunday an evacuation order for the northern Gaza Strip, warning Palestinians in parts of Gaza City ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the entire Gaza Strip will be under Israeli security control by the end of the war, and that Israel is open to a temporary ceasefire and a hostage ...

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The Gaza Strip was born out of the Nakba. Some 200,000 of the 1948 refugees were driven into the small coastal area, and more than 70% of Gaza's current population are their descendants.

Israel has dropped leaflets across parts of southern Gaza calling on civilians to evacuate and “head towards known shelters,” indicating that Israel could soon expand its ground operation ...

Gaza crisis: In the Gaza Strip, Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars, killing tens of thousands and plunging at least half of the population into “famine-like conditions.

The coastal strip of Gaza, ... This includes the parts of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, where about 1.1mn civilians were told by Israel to leave for their own safety.

The Gaza Strip has long been a powder keg. ... The war left large parts of several cities in ruins and displaced around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people.

Drone footage from Gaza City shows buildings reduced to burnt-out shells and rubble after one of the fiercest nights of Israeli airstrikes across the besieged strip.