* 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.

The younger generations of Fatah, especially within the militant al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades, have been more prone to splits, and a number of lesser networks in Gaza and the West Bank have established themselves as either independent organizations or joined Hamas.

The Second Intifada broke out in September 2000 with its waves of protest, civil unrest and bombings against Israeli military and civilians, many of them perpetrated by suicide bombers, and the beginning of rockets and bombings of Israeli border localities by Palestinian guerrillas from Gaza Strip, especially from Hamas and Jihad Islamic movements.

Antisemitism in Sweden has been increasing after Gaza war in 2009, especially in Malmö, which has a large illegal Muslim community.

According to Salam Fayyad — a former World Bank official whom Arafat appointed Finance Minister of the PNA in 2002 — Arafat's commodity monopolies could accurately be seen as gouging his own people, " especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral.

Sderot received a symbolic name, after the numerous avenues and standalone rows of trees planted in the Negev, especially between Beersheba and Gaza, to combat desertification and beautify the arid landscape.

Apparent devastation of the fertile Shephelah during this period, coupled with growth of the population of the highlands and the southeast of the kingdom ( especially in the Beersheba valley ) during Manasseh's reign point to this possibility, as does evidence in the Gaza area of entrepôt trade, and an apparently flourishing olive oil industry at Ekron at the time.

The riots escalated daily throughout the territories and were especially severe in the Gaza Strip.

" It is especially critical of what it alleges is Israel's misuse of U. S. taxpayer's money to fund activities in violation of international law, monitoring the use of U. S. taxpayer funds by Israel in the West Bank and in Gaza.

In Israel, this precedent of Israelis forcibly evicted from their homes by Israeli forces is considered a socio-political landmark, causing and / or signifying the widening rift in Israel between the religious nationalist Jews ( such as NRP supporters ) and left-wing Israelis ; it is one of the many fractures which the Israeli society has to deal with today, especially following similar events seen in Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005.

Dahlan has also faced criticism regarding his role in Gaza turmoil, especially in exchanging hostilities with rival security forces commander Ghazi al-Jabali.

The parlement cannot function, merely because free travel is not possible, especially between Gaza and West Bank, apart from hostilities between Fatah and Hamas.

The influence of Islamic groups in the Gaza Strip has grown since the 1980s, especially as poverty has risen and fighting with Israel began in 2000.

* 21 October Omar Ismael Omar al-Buhisi, 16, of Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration near the Kfar Darom settlement.

Muhammad Nawaf Hamad al-Taban, 17, of al-Zawaida, near Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his back during a demonstration near the Kfar Darom settlement.

Maghazi () is located in the Deir al-Balah Governorate in the central Gaza Strip.

By the middle of March the railway had reached Rafa, from Deir el Belah and the Royal Navy undertook to land stores as soon as required on the beach at Deir el Belah, which was within range for an attack on Gaza by mounted troops and infantry.

All roads and tracks were reconnoitred as far as Deir el Belah and by 22 March preliminary moves towards Gaza had begun.

The Desert Column marched from Deir el Belah to attack Gaza, while the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division marched from In Seirat and the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade started from Abasan el Kebir.

Two squadrons of the 8th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade, moved towards Deir Sneid north east of Gaza to watch and wait for the expected approach of Ottoman reinforcements moving towards Gaza.

Some 300 had been seen marching from the north towards Gaza and a little later three Ottoman columns were reported moving from the same direction another 300 Ottoman soldiers had moved into the sand hills west of Deir Sineid.

Gush Katif was located on the southwestern edge of the Gaza Strip, bordered on the southwest by Rafah and the Egyptian border, on the east by Khan Yunis, on the northeast by Deir el-Balah, and on the west and northwest by the Mediterranean Sea.

Misleh Abu Jarad, a Palestinian from Deir al-Balah, Gaza, was also killed.

Deir al-Balah or Dayr al-Balah () is a Palestinian city in the central Gaza Strip and the administrative capital of the Deir el-Balah Governorate.

By April an aerodrome and an army camp were established there and Deir al-Balah became a launching point for British forces against Ottoman-held Gaza and Beersheba to the north and northeast, respectively.

In 1994 Deir al-Balah was the first city to officially come under the control of the Palestinian National Authority as a result of the Gaza – Jericho Agreement.

During factional clashes across the Gaza Strip in June 2007 which ended with Hamas gaining control over that territory, at least four paramilitaries from Hamas and Fatah were killed in Deir al-Balah.

Deir al-Balah is situated in the middle area of the Gaza Strip, along the coastline of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Khan Yunis is to Deir al-Balah's south and Gaza City is located to the north.

Katif () was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip, about 1 km north of the Palestinian refugee camp of Deir el-Balah.