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In 2023 approximately 2.1 million Palestinians lived in the Gaza Strip, [26] around 1.6 million of them UN-registered refugees. [39] The Strip's population has continued to increase since that time, one of the main reasons being a total fertility rate of 3.38 children per woman (2023 est).
Gaza’s population dropped by 6% – about 160,000 people – in 2024, according to a new report, as Israel’s war against Hamas took a heavy toll on the Palestinian enclave’s demographics.
[8] [298] This leads to the Gaza Strip having an unusually high proportion of children in the population, with 43.5% of the population being 14 or younger and a median age in 2014 of 18, compared to a world average of 28, and 30 in Israel. The only countries with a lower median age are countries in Africa such as Uganda where it was 15.
The West Bank had a population of 2,881,687, whereas the Gaza Strip had a population of 1,899,291. ... (February 2024) counted by Palestinian Authority
Described as “the world’s largest open-air prison” by human rights groups, the Gaza Strip is facing its biggest humanitarian crisis yet as airstrikes rain down on its civilian population ...
Rafah is the site of the Rafah Border Crossing, the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Gaza's only airport, Yasser Arafat International Airport, was located just south of the city. The airport operated from 1998 to 2001, until it was bombed and bulldozed by the Israeli military (IDF). [14] [15]
The entire population of Gaza is “being dehumanized,” the UN Commissioner-General of the main UN agency operating in the besieged strip told the UN security council Monday, as Isareli Prime ...
By 13 December, the UN estimated half of Gaza's entire population was in Rafah. [202] On 20 December, the United Nations stated Rafah was the most densely populated area in the Gaza Strip. [203] The United Nations stated that up to thirty percent of the Gaza Strip was under evacuation orders. [204]