1 day ago · Before the war surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948, present-day Gaza was part of the large swath of the Middle East under British colonial rule. After Israel defeated the coalition of Arab states, the Egyptian army was left in control of a small strip of land wedged between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean.

2 days ago · During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to see the U.S. own the Gaza Strip, develop it into the ‘Riviera of the Middle ...

3 days ago · Iran has condemned US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, joining other countries in the region in rejecting the plan.

The Gaza Strip (/ ˈɡɑːzə / ⓘ; [10] Arabic: قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣaz.za]), also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine.

1 day ago · JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing and abducting people, sparking a crushing ...

1 day ago · 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.

1 day ago · Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday strongly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks suggesting that they could be permanently resettled elsewhere and that the U.S. might stage a long-term takeover of the vacated region. ... Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it ...

1 day ago · “The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said. ... the key piece in Trump’s plan to create an anti-Iran crescent capped by a diplomatic normalization ...

2 days ago · “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference Tuesday evening. ... and Iran’s new president has indicated that he would like ...

Oct 9, 2023 · 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...