Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is part of Palestine, a term that refers to the entity which has governed the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1994. As of 2005 Palestine had not yet become an independent sovereign state, but it was...

The Gaza Strip (Arabic: قطاع غزة transliteration: Qitˁɑ' Ġazzah/Qita' Ghazzah, Hebrew: רצועת עזה‎ Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the north and...

Byline: Michael Hirsh The Israelis didn't want Palestinian elections back in January 2006. Even Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, had been worried about them and kept asking for delays. As early as the spring of 2005, Abbas had warned American officials that...

Unrest grows in crowded Gaza Strip Associated Press Sunday, October 12, 2003 Gaza City, Gaza Strip -- Some 1.3 million people crowd the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas in the world -- and one of the poorest....

Violence erupted in the Gaza Strip on Monday, with warring Palestinian factions firing at each other and kidnapping rivals, and gunmen abducting a foreign news photographer.The clashes in the Jebaliya refugee camp near Gaza City broke a weeklong pause in the violent confrontation between the...

Gunfights erupted across the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing at least six people after Hamas militants hijacked a convoy delivering supplies to the rival Fatah-allied security forces, effectively destroying a short-lived truce.An Egyptian mediator blamed Hamas and called for calm three days after he persuaded the...