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The Gaza Strip places 24th out of 135 countries according to Human Poverty Index. According to the World Health Organization, in 2022 the average life expectancy for males was 72.5 years and 75 years for females, about the same as Egypt, Lebanon or Jordan, but lower than in Israel. [320]
Nevertheless, according to the international community, the Gaza Strip is still considered to be occupied by Israel. [12] Israel has denied that it occupies the Gaza Strip, but two of the three border sectors of the Gaza Strip, together with the coast and airspace, are controlled by Israel (the third border sector near Rafah is controlled by ...
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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Old Town of Gaza (1862–1863). Picture by Francis Frith The known history of Gaza City spans 4,000 years. Gaza was ruled, destroyed and repopulated by various dynasties, empires, and peoples ...
The Gaza Strip is 45 km (25 miles) long and at most 10 km (6 miles) wide. It is wedged between Israel to the north and east, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the south and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
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 ...
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by a majority of UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
The Gaza Strip is the "most dangerous place in the world to be a child," the head of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Wednesday. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told ...