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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Second Intifada Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Clockwise from top-left: Palestinian child Faris Odeh throws a stone at an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip Israeli soldiers in Nablus during Operation Defensive Shield Aftermath of a Palestinian suicide bombing on a public transit bus near ...
An IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer demolishing a house in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. The Second Intifada was a major Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.
The Intifada came to an end in February 2005, and Israel forces and settlers left the Gaza Strip by 1 September 2005 as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. To improve the movement of people and economic activity in the Gaza Strip, Israel and the PA on 15 November 2005 signed an "Agreement on Movement and Access" (AMA).
Today, Israel enforces its borders on the Gaza Strip, but so does Egypt. ... Palestinians rose up against Israel in what’s now called the Second Intifada. At the time, Israel was embracing right ...
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War, capturing it from Egypt along with the Sinai peninsula.In 1970, the first Israeli settlement was built. In 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel agreed to an outline for Palestinians to self-govern in the Palestinian territories.
The Palestinian Gaza Strip has been a frontline of conflict with Israel for decades and cut off from much of the outside world for 16 years. Here's a primer on the coastal enclave's recent history ...
Towards the end of the Second Intifada, Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, Hamas won the 2006 election and seized control of Gaza in 2007. [ 9 ] In 2007, Israel imposed a land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip , [ 10 ] turning it into an "open-air prison".
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 ...