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Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah (occupied territory) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 31 25 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 31.4167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 034 20 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 34.3333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Coastal strip, formerly part of Palestine; seized from Egypt by Israel, along with contiguous Sinai peninsula, in 1956; relinquished control, but seized again by Israel in 1967 Six Day War; Sinai was returned to Egypt 1982; occupants are Palestinians and Jewish settlers. As of Spring 2005, the status of the area is as follows: Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement; permanent status to be determined through further negotiation. |
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| Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah (preferred,C,V,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Gaza Strip (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Qita Ghazzah (C,V)
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| Reẕuʻat ʻAzza (C,V,Hebrew (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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| Ghazzah (C,V)
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| Gaza (C,V)
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| Ghazze (C,V)
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| la bande de Gaza (C,O)
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| قطاع غَزَّة (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| GZ00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Gaza (Palestine) (C,U,English)
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| עזה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| occupied territory (preferred, C) |
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occupied by Israel in 1967 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| autonomous area (C) |
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Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements was signed in 1993 |
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