Gaza's 70 years of woe

Gaza, a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore, was held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917. it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in enclave inhabited by 2 million Palestinians.

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