The Gaza Strip covers 140 square miles of
rolling, dune-covered coastal plain with no surface water, a virtual
desert with only 13 percent arable land. Although the aquifer is
tainted with seawater, Gazans grow olives, citrus fruit, and
vegetables.
Although many Palestinian families have lived in Gaza
for hundreds of years, nearly half of its 900,000 people live in
eight refugee camps formed during Israel’s and palestinianWar
in 1948. They have endured military occupation since 1967, when
Israel captured Gaza from Egypt during the Six Day War. Since then,
19 Israeli settlements have been established and are fenced in for
their own protection. A building boom has recently changed the face
of Gaza City as the Israeli military, which prohibited most
construction, has withdrawn. But the borders are still controlled by
Israel, occupation army that killing the palestenian people evry
where since the 1948
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![[Country map of Gaza Strip]](/cgi-bin/i/gz-map.jpeg)
