It borders Egypt on the southwest for 11 kilometers 6. Gaza and the West Bank are claimed by the de jure sovereign State of Palestine. The territories of Gaza and the West Bank are separated from each other by Israeli territory. Both fell under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority , [10] but the strip has, since the Battle of Gaza in June , been governed by Hamas , a Palestinian fundamentalist militant Islamic organization, [11] which came to power in the last-held elections in It has been placed under an Israeli and US-led international economic and political boycott from that time onwards. The territory is 41 kilometers 25 mi long, from 6 to 12 kilometers 3.

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The term " Palestinian territories " has been used for many years to describe the territories occupied by Israel since , namely the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The EU had utilized a parallel term Palestinian Authority territories [16] [17] [18] occasionally during the same period. In , Israel officially absorbed East Jerusalem and has proclaimed the whole of Jerusalem to be its capital. The inclusion, though never formally amounting to legal annexation, was condemned internationally [19] and declared "null and void" by the United Nations Security Council.

The latest eruption of violence has raised the specter of another devastating war and once again drawn international attention to the impoverished, densely populated strip. Gaza, sandwiched between Israel and Egypt, is just 25 miles 40 kilometers long and six miles 10 kilometers wide. Large numbers of Palestinians who fled or were driven from what is now Israel ended up in Gaza, and the refugees and their descendants now number 1.