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The population of the Gaza Strip had been greatly augmented by an influx of Palestinian refugees who fled from Israel before and during the fighting.

Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip or Egypt were issued All-Palestine passports.

Egypt did not offer the Palestinians citizenship.

From the end of 1949, the refugees received aid directly from UNRWA.

During the Sinai campaign of November 1956, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops.

International pressure led Israel to withdraw.

The government was accused of being little more than a façade for Egyptian control, with negligible independent funding or influence.

It subsequently moved to Cairo and was dissolved in 1959, by decree of Egyptian President, Gamal Abdul Nasser.