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The fighting in the Gaza Strip is due to issues going back thousands of years. Currently, the West Bank is occupied, but not being actively fought over. It is a disputed territory and both the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority are jockeying to control some or that entire region in the future.
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In the 1880s the Jews scattered throughout Europe and America made known their desire to return to the Promised Land. Since they were expelled by the Romans, they had no land to call their own. The desire to reestablish them in Palestine was called the Zionist Movement.
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After World War I, Britain announced it welcomed the idea of Jews settling in Palestine. However the Arabs residing in the area did not like it. They felt the land belonged to them. During and after World War I, many Jews migrated to Palestine. However the tension between them and the Arabs grew. So even before fighting in the Gaza Strip began, the tension was already there.
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What is one thing that the Palestinians and Israelites are fighting over?
The Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Israel-proper.
What were Israelis and Palestinians fighting over?
The Israelis and Palestinians are fighting over a small piece of land called the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.The Israelis and Palestinians are fighting about a wide variety of things. Please see the Related Question to read more about the conflict.
Are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank still being fought over today?
The West Bank is certainly being fought over. There is a Palestinian Government (the Palestinian Authority) which claims the territory of the West Bank to be its sovereign land and an occupying Israeli Government (the State of Israel) that claims stewardship of the territory pending a final treaty or similar agreement. The two sides occasionally clash over these views. As for the Gaza Strip, while it is certainly true that fighting between the Hamas government and the Israeli government occurs in and around the Gaza Strip, it is not being fought over. This is to say that the Israeli government makes no claim to the territory in the Gaza Strip. Therefore it is exclusively Palestinian Territory. Also, the last remnant of Fatah in Gaza was excised in 2007, so there is no intra-Palestinian fighting either for control of the territory.
What three areas of land in Israel are groups fighting over?
The West Bank (also called Judea and Samaria) The Gaza Strip The Old district in the City of Jerusalem
Do Jews live in the Gaza strip?
Jews used to live in the Gaza Strip as Israeli Settlers from the late 1960s to their removal by the Israeli government in 2006. No Jews have lived in the Gaza Strip since they were removed in 2006, and governance of the Strip handed over to the Palestinian Authority. In addition, Jews do not have a religious claim to Gaza as that territory belonged to the Philistines during the Ancient Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Which two ethnic groups are fighting over the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip?
As of right now (May 2014), nobody is. Until a few weeks ago, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority were competing for political power in those areas, but they signed an agreement a few weeks ago, and they are presently making nice in public. In an overarching and general sense, the Israelis and the Palestinians are fighting over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. However, the Israeli government has already ceded the claim on the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians and claims that it is willing to devolve control of most of the West Bank to Palestinians as well.
Is the Gaza Stripe part of Israel?
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.
What does the Gaza Strip look like?
Answer 1No, it one of major cities in Palestine.Answer 2Currently the territory is in de facto control of the Militant Hamas Organization which has severed ties with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Gaza, by virtue of this is de facto an independent country, although no country recognizes it and most see it as an integral part of any future Palestinian State.
Why can't the two countries just share the Gaza Strip?
Ironically, the Gaza Strip is the only territory in the entirety of the former Mandate of Palestine (Israel and the Palestinian Territories) that is not actually contested between the Israeli and Palestinian governments. Israel ceded significant control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority in 1993 and subsequently gave it full control in 2005.The reason that there have been numerous wars in the Gaza Strip is because the Hamas government that currently rules over the Gaza Strip has a policy that peace with Israel is impossible and continues to lash out against Israel. If the Gaza Strip was more willing to behave peacefully with its neighbors (both Egypt and Israel), there would be fewer conflicts in the Gaza Strip. (Even Palestinians are getting tired of Hamas as can be seen in the parody of the "Thank You Hamas" videos.)
Is Hamas a country?
No. Hamas is paramilitary, terrorist, welfare, and political organization. (It has several distinct wings.)While the Palestinian Authority has de jure authority over both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Hamas exerts de facto control in the Gaza Strip. This has led some Egyptian generals to call the Gaza Strip "Hamas-stan" since Hamas rules a strip of territory.
Who lives in the Gaza strip?
The Gaza Strip is populated exclusively by Palestinian Arabs. It is ruled by Hamas, which is a fundamentalist Islamist Paramilitary/Terrorist Organization. It is currently blockaded by Israel.
Why do Israel and Palestine fight over the Gaza Strip?
The Gaza Strip is currently ruled by Hamas which is dead-set on opposing the Israeli Right to Exist. It has constantly bombarded Israeli cities close to it and recently expanded its firing range to the Israeli financial capital of Tel Aviv. The Israelis have surrounded Gaza with a blockade and armed border to prevent the influx of the very missiles used to perpetrate these attacks. This has caused a humanitarian problem in Gaza, resulting in increased fury to attack the Israelis. This vicious cycle self-perpetuates.
