No he is not. In his own words when he completed part of the Israeli special forces selection, he states he was never part of the military.
Of course Non-Jews are permitted to join the Israeli Defense Forces; Non-Jews have been part of the IDF since its inception. The mandatory draft was extended to the Druze in 1956 and Druze, Bedouins, and Circassians have volunteered in high numbers for positions in the Israeli Defense Forces since Israeli Independence in 1948. Ethnic-Palestinian Israeli citizens are also permitted to join the Israeli Defense Forces, but rarely do since many Ethnic-Palestinians Israeli citizens do not want to open fire on other Palestinians.
Hamas controls the Gaza Strip, which is part of the Palestinian Territories. However, the organizational headquarters are in Damascus, Syria so that they will be outside of Israeli attack-range.
Gaza is not recognized as an independent nation; it is part of the Palestinian territories, which also include the West Bank. The region is governed by Hamas, a political and militant group, but it lacks full sovereignty and is subject to significant restrictions and control by Israel, particularly regarding borders, airspace, and resources. The status of Gaza is a complex and contentious issue in the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There was no part of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that changed markedly in 1967. The Six-Day War, which occurred in that year, was caused by the Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians. The Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza, and Sinai were unfortunately transferred from Egyptian and Jordanian run camps to Israeli run camps, but had no part in the actual hostilities. After 1967, the Palestinian Fedayeen (or militants) united to form the PLO.
Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. It was becoming more financially and militarily cumbersome to maintain settlements and Israeli police in that territory than its desirability as part of the Jewish State.
Nobody did that, and the Gaza Strip is not part of Israel.
Although this is heavily disputed, the areas most often disputed are The West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The West Bank was previously Transjordan, or sometimes referred to as Cisjordan. The Gaza Strip was captured in the 1967 Six Day War and remained Israeli when Egyptian officials did not want to take control over it as part of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. The Golan Heights were captured from Syria during the same war.
Answer 1Israel from the beginning did not seek the land that was not part of the territory formed by two Hebrew Kingdoms of the past: Northern Kingdom of Israel and Southern Kingdom of Judah. Gaza was the land where the "sea people" from Greece called by Ancient Jews "Plishtim"- invaders in Hebrew - founded their five confederate cities. Later the word "Plishtim" was transformed in "Philistines" in Greek and "Palaestinians" in Latin. Although these invaders -Palestinians- were finally defeated by Israelis/Jews, they did not look at Gaza as at their land.Answer 2If you are referring to the Modern State of Israel, the Gaza Strip was never really a part of the Jewish State. According to UN Resolution 181, the whole of the Gaza Strip and a much larger piece of land would belong to an Arab State. During the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, Egyptian troops were still in the Gaza Strip when Egypt agreed to a ceasefire, giving Egypt control of Gaza. In 1993, the Oslo Accords set up the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip that would be a functionally separate state. Gaza has never bee under Israeli Civilian Control and most Israelis are quite happy with that.
The Gaza Strip is an anomaly. It was part of Egypt, but when Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty, Egypt refused to take back the Gaza Strip. Under international law, it was considered part of Israel, but Israel does not believe in occupying other areas, so they declined to take over the Gaza Strip. It is not part of any country, nor is it independent.
No. According to the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Gaza Strip officially belongs to the Palestinian Authority. It is currently occupied by the Hamas Paramilitary/Terrorist Group.
The majority of Gaza residents are descendants of Palestinian families who were displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when the state of Israel was established. Many of these families originally lived in towns and villages that are now part of Israel. Additionally, some residents have roots in other areas of historic Palestine and the broader region. Today, Gaza's population is predominantly Palestinian, with a strong sense of identity tied to their historical and cultural heritage.