* 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

In 1991 the DFLP split, with a minority faction led by Yasser Abd Rabbo ( who had become increasingly close to Yasser Arafat ) favouring the Madrid negotiations that led initially to limited Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

* 1987 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The country borders Libya to the west, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east, and Sudan to the south.

The northern third of Sinai is a flat, sandy coastal plain, which extends from the Suez Canal into the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Some 400 Fatah members from the Gaza Strip were unable to attend the conference in Bethlehem after Hamas barred them from traveling to the West Bank.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

The Gaza Strip (, ) is a strip of land on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest ( 11 km ) and Israel on the east and north ().

The population of Gaza Strip is about 1. 7 million people.

While the majority were born in the Gaza Strip, a large percentage identify as Palestinian refugees, fleeing to Gaza as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus following the Arab-Israeli War.

With a yearly growth rate of about 3. 2 %, the Gaza Strip has the 7th highest population growth rate in the world.

The Gaza Strip acquired its current boundaries at the cessation of fighting in the 1948 war, confirmed by the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement on 24 February 1949.

The Gaza Strip continued to be occupied by Egypt.

At first Gaza Strip was officially administered by the All-Palestine Government, established by the Arab League in September 1948.

From the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government in 1959 until 1967, the Gaza Strip was directly administered by an Egyptian military governor.

Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War in 1967.

The Gaza Strip forms part of the Palestinian territories.

Since July 2007, following the 2006 Palestinian legislative election and the following Battle of Gaza, Hamas has functioned as the de-facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, forming an alternative Hamas Government in Gaza.

After the cessation of hostilities, the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement of 24 February 1949 established the separation line between Egyptian and Israeli forces, and established what became the present boundary between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

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.

* Loanwords that have a low central vowel in their language of origin, such as llama, pasta, and pyjamas, as well as place names like Gaza, tend to have rather than ( which is the same as due to the father – bother merger, see below ); this also applies to older loans like drama or Apache.

In 2007, relations between the two have thawed in the fields of diplomacy and economic trade, only to collapse during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict when the Iranian and Egyptian politicians exchanged blames over inaction towards the escalation.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

* 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.

The limited Palestinian self-rule of Jericho was agreed on in the Gaza – Jericho Agreement of 4 May 1994.

Part of the Gaza – Jericho Agreement was a Protocol on Economic Relations, signed on 29 April 1994.

* 2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

* 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

* 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

* 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.

However, following the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict, Qatar hosted an emergency conference of Arab states and Iran to discuss the conflict.

)- 1475, he studied civil law at the university of Pavia, and later went to Ferrara ( 1475 – 1479 ), where he became the protégé of Prince d ' Este of Ferrara, was a pupil of Theodor Gaza and attended lectures by the famous Battista Guarino.

Most Palestinian refugees – those in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan – do not come within the responsibility of the UNHCR, but instead come under an older body, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ).

In 1973 – 74, Arafat closed Black September down, ordering the PLO to withdraw from acts of violence outside Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

After a stalemate on the Gaza — Beersheba line between March and October 1917, Beersheba was captured by the Australian Mounted Division's 4th Light Horse Brigade.

The agreement also established an elected 88-member Palestinian National Council, which held its inaugural session in Gaza in March 1996.

* Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, was killed in a targeted killing in the Gaza Strip in an operation conducted by the Israeli Air Force on March 22, 2004.

* March 26 – WWI: First Battle of Gaza: British cavalry troops retreat after 17, 000 Turks block their advance.

* March 22 – Palestinians protest in the streets after an Israeli helicopter gunship fires a missile at the entourage of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City, killing him and 7 others.

* 29 March: Two elderly men were stabbed to death while on their way to the synagogue for morning prayers, when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

In March 2009, The Guardian reported allegations that Israeli UAVs armed with missiles killed 48 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, including two small children in a field and a group of women and girls in an otherwise empty street.

On 6 March 1957 General Burns was able to report to the Secretary-General of the UN that the " United Nations Emergency Force troops are now in position in all camps and centres of population in Gaza Strip ".

The staged withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, with the exception of an Israel troop unit at Rafah camp, at 0400 GMT on 7 March 1957 was carried out according to plan and without incidents.

Gunners of A Battery, the Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 4th Light Horse Brigade | 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade, crouch between their Ordnance QF 13 pounder | 13 pounder quick fire field guns and a cactus hedge near Belah, Palestine, in March 1917 during First Battle of Gaza.

ISM volunteer Rachel Corrie was killed as she attempted to block an Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) bulldozer conducting military operations in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003.

She plans to join an aid flotilla sailing for Gaza at the end of March 2011.

Kenneth Nichols " Ken " O ' Keefe ( born July 21, 1969 ) is an Irish-Palestinian citizen and activist and former United States Marine and Gulf War veteran who renounced his US citizenship on March 1, 2001. He led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid.

The division fought in the First and Second Battle of Gaza in March and April 1917.

In March 1916, Chauvel became commander of the Anzac Mounted Division, gaining victories in the Battle of Romani in August and the Battle of Magdhaba in December, and nearly winning the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917.

In the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917, Chauvel's mission was similar to Rafa and Magdhaba, but on a larger scale.

On 26 March 1917, the 53rd Division bore the brunt of the First Battle of Gaza where the three brigades, along with the 161st Brigade of the 54th Division, had to advance across exposed ground, withstanding shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire, to capture the Turkish fortifications.

Then in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, during the First Battle of Gaza, on 26 March 1917, the 161st Brigade and divisional artillery were in reserve while the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division carried out the main attack.

* March 3: Three Hamas militants were killed in the Gaza Strip when their car was targeted by an Israeli helicopter.

* March 13: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers near the Karni border crossing in Gaza.

* March 18: Four Palestinians, two militants and two children, die in two Israeli air strikes on Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.

But to do so would require the capture of the Ottoman Empire's fortifications at Gaza, and there the First Battle of Gaza was fought in March 1917.