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    Nations estimates that as many as half the 1.5 million population of the Gaza Strip crossed the border into Egypt seeking food and supplies. Due to fears...
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    The Egypt–Palestine border, also called EgyptGaza border, is the 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. There is a buffer...
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    imposed on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip since Hamas's takeover in 2007, led by Israel and supported by Egypt. The blockade's...
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    does not allow goods to go directly from Egypt into Gaza through the EgyptGaza border. A fence along the border was first constructed by Israel in 1971...
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    The EgyptGaza barrier is a steel border barrier constructed by Egypt along its 14 km (8.5 miles) border with the Gaza Strip. The Rafah border crossing...
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    occurred in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and with Hezbollah along the Israel–Lebanon border. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it is...
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    Palestine's Gaza Strip. It is located on the Egypt–Palestine border. Under a 2007 agreement between Egypt and Israel, Egypt controls the crossing but...
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    The Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels are smuggling tunnels that had been dug under the Philadelphi Route along the EgyptGaza border. They were dug to subvert...
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  • January 2008, Israel sealed the border completely following a rise in rocket attacks. The breach of the Gaza-Egypt border began on 23 January 2008, after...
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    Rafah (redirect from Rafah, Gaza Strip)
    located in Egypt-occupied Gaza and consequently, a GazaEgypt border did no longer exist. Rafah could grow without any consideration being taken of the old 1906...
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    Gaza. The Gaza Strip has been under blockade by both Israel and Egypt since 2005. Several border crossings have existed from the Gaza Strip along the...
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    territories (the other being the West Bank). On the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east...
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    airstrikes overnight. Dozens of other targets were attacked by aircraft and artillery during the day, and the Gaza-Egypt border was bombed after Israeli aircraft...
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    with the strategic goal of forcing the latter to lift the Israeli–Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip; among its other goals were to end Israel's military...
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    Philadelphi Corridor (category EgyptGaza border)
    situated along the entirety of the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt. Following Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza-strip in 2005, the Philadelphi...
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    The 2018–2019 Gaza border protests, also known as the Great March of Return (Arabic: مسیرة العودة الكبرى, romanized: Masīra al-ʿawda al-kubrā), were a...
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  • Thumbnail for Proposed Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip
    military presence on the Egyptian-Gaza border, and reserving the right to reenter Gaza at will. Israel continues to control six of Gaza's seven land crossings...
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    military presence on the Egyptian-Gaza border, and reserving the right to reenter Gaza at will. Israel continues to control six of Gaza's seven land crossings...
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    Government in Gaza and ousted its rival Fatah. Following the takeover, Israel and Egypt largely sealed their border crossings with Gaza, making Gaza's economic...
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    of the state compromised modern day Egypt as well as the Gaza Strip, governed by the All-Palestine Protectorate. The territory also included modern day...
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    the Six-Day War, occupation of the Palestinian territories was split between Egypt and Jordan, with the former having occupied the Gaza Strip and the...
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    into Israel. Hamas fighters breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in Gaza envelope Kibbutz settlements...
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  • Gaza although it did not exercise sovereignty on the ground. Egypt insisted that it was still occupied and refused to open border crossings with Gaza...
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    this period, Katyusha attacks from Gaza were rare. In January 2008 the border between Gaza and Egypt was breached by Hamas. It allowed them to bring in...
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    Israeli or Egyptian authorities. This network of tunnels is colloquially referred to as the Gaza metro.‌ According to General Hassan Hassanzadeh, the commander...
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    policemen to the Egypt-Gaza Strip border to prevent the possible transfer of Shalit into Egypt, as well as to prevent an influx of refugees out of the Strip...
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    Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with Egyptian support, and multiple wars with Israel, including in 2008–09, 2012, 2014, and 2021. The ongoing 2023 war...
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    begun to enter Gaza through Egypt but Israel is currently limiting what can arrive through its crossing points and blocked the supply of financial aid...
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    aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security...
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    The 2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire was an Egyptian-brokered six-month Tahdia (an Arabic term for a lull) "for the Gaza area", which went into effect between...
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