Gaza Strip
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Geography
That Gaza Strip ( ???? ????, Qit?? Ghazza, ????? ???, Retzuat Azza) a coastal strip is to of 40 km length and between 6 and 14 km broad; the surface amounts to 378 km².
The area consists mainly of sand and dunes, only 13% of the surface is usable for the agriculture. In the annual average it rains between 150 to 450 mm, however the strip has plentifully groundwaters.
In the Gaza Strip there are five Palestinian cities: Gaza city, Khan Yunis, Beit Lahia, Dschabaliya and Rafah. According to Palestinian data live 1.5 million Palestinian in the Gaza Strip. Up to evacuation of the Jewish settlements (see below) in August 2005 lived approx.. 8500 Israelis in the Gaza Strip within the Jewish in 21 Jewish settlements.
The Gaza Strip is not only one of the most closely settled and poorest regions of the world (3400 inhabitants per km², about as much as in from the today's Israel fled, as well as their descendant.
Political situation
To was the Gaza Strip of occupies. In Six-day war became it however of Israel occupied. Since that Kairoer agreement it partly stands for that under the autonomy ().
Between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians it comes since proclaiming that second Intifada again and again to bloody fights, the Gaza Strip forms a center of the radical-Islamic Hamas.
The Israeli Prime Minister 2005, after long arguments relating to domestic affairs, interspersed the departure of the Israelis from the Gaza Strip - connected with the dismantling of all Jewish settlements -. During a tuning in Israeli parliament 60 delegates for the departure and 47 had expressed themselves against it. This majority received Scharon only due to voices of the opposition (andA. that A work party), since its party was split in the question of the retreat and therefore delegates were partly correct against it.
Despite violent social and political arguments in the apron Israel led to 15. August 2005 finally the departure from the Gaza Strip with an entry and a ban on residence for Israeli civilians; the settlers of the 21 in the Gaza Strip present Jewish settlements first one period was given by 48 hours, in order to leave the area. Afterwards the obligatory evacuation of the area began by that Israeli military. Within fewer days the settlements in the Gaza Strip were vacated; after outline of the houses the past Jewish settlement areas are to be handed over to the Palestinians.
In the morning 12. September 2005 left the last Israeli military convoy the Gaza Strip over the border crossing Kissufim. With it the military operational readiness level of the Israelis in the Gaza Strip ended after 38 years.
The departure became partly frenetisch from the Palestinians with joy shots and Autokorsos celebrated. However it came also to incidents, then Palestinians were those in several earlier Israeli settlements the settler in fire, who was undestroyed left as only buildings.
History
Too the today's Gaza Strip belonged to times to the core of the settlement area that Philister.
Already the famous highway Via Maris ran by the Gaza Strip and by Israel. It was considered as strategic cross way, because it linked North Africa with Europe.
Further topics
Web on the left of
- Roni Ben Efrat: The wrong of the others The Medienrummel around the evacuation of the Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip (young world, 19. October 2005)
- Christian Sterzing: Light view for Gaza Over the border opening and the European Union mission (the daily paper, 18. Novemeber 2005)
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