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Zikim Karmiya No Fishing Zone 1.5 nautical miles Yad Mordekhai 3 nautical miles September 2013 GAZA STRIP As-Siafa Source: PCBS, OCHA, WFP Source: Mapping Movement and Access Netiv Ha'asara Temporary Ar-Rasheed Wastewater Treatment Lagoons Erez Crossing 1 Beit Lahia Al-Qarya Beit Hanoun Wastewater Al-Badawiya The Gaza Strip, a part of Mandatory Palestine, was created by Width 5.7-12.5 km / 3.5-7.7 mi Population under the age of 18 Treatment Plant (Umm An-Naser) Erez the armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt in 1949. 900,745 (52.9%) mid 2013 North Gaza From that time until 1967 the Strip was under Egyptian control Length 40 km / 24.8 mi Al- Karama As-Sekka Izbat Beit Hanoun and its connection to the West Bank and Israel was cut off. Unemployment rate Beit Hanoun Madinat Beit Lahia 31% 1st quarter of 2013 In 1967, the connection was renewed when the Gaza Strip and the Area 365 km² / 141 mi² Al-'Awda Sheikh Zayed Beit Hanoun West Bank were occupied by Israel. The 1993 Oslo Accords defined Ash-Shati Housing Project Industrial Zone Percentage of population camp Jabalia Sderot the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as a single territorial unit in whose Population 1,707,437 June 2013 Jabalia Camp Khalil al-Wazeer receiving aid at least 70% 2013 8 Gaza Fishing Port Ash-Sheikh borders freedom of movement would be permitted. However, since Ash-Shifa An-Naser Radwan Population density 4,661 people Hospital 1991 the Gaza Strip has gradually been closed off; since 2007 its Salah Ad-Deen Literacy rate aged 15 and over Palestine Ar-Rasheed Stadium Legislative residents have only been able to exit and enter it in exceptional cases. per km² / 12,109 per mi² 95% 2011 Council Northern Remal Al-Karama Nir Am Southern Remal Gaza Sports Club Al-Azhar Ad-Darraj University Government At-Tuffah UNRWA Building Complex Compound Islamic University Khalil al-Wazeer As-Sabra Gaza City Ash-Sheikh Northern Gaza Ijleen Wastewater Tal El-Hawa Treatment Plant Old City ljdeedeh Mefalsim Al-Quds Al-Karama Gaza Al-Montar Gaza Seaport Rd No. 10 Az-Zaitoun Nahal Oz Crossing 2 Al-Montar Ar-Rasheed Ash-Shuja'iyeh Hill Kfar Aza Salah Ad-Deen Karni Industrial Zone (closed) ClosedKarni Crossing Crossings6 2 Az-Zahra Al-Mughraqa At-Turkman Al-Montar Sa'ad (Abu Middein) Karni-Nezarim Nahal Oz ab Wadi Gaza Karni-Nezarim Omar Ben Al-Khatt Gaza Power Plant Juhar ad-Dik Salah Ad-Deen Gaza landfill Regional Context Fishing limit currently enforced by the Israeli Navy An-Nuseirat Camp Wadi Gaza LEBANON Coastal Road S e a Al-Burej Camp Kfar Maimon Acre Az-Zawayda As-Sekka Salah Ad-Deen Haifa Tiberias Deir al-Balah Wharf Al-Maghazi Nazareth Camp Be'eri Shokeda Deir al-Balah MEDITERRANEAN Camp Al-Mussadar Jenin SEA Deir al-Balah Tulkarm Tubas Mediterranean Nablus Source: PCBS, OCHA, WFP Source: Coastal Road ash-Shohada West River Jordan Tel Aviv Middle Area Wadi As-Salqa Bank Lod Ramallah Jericho Al-Ma'ani Ramla Kisufim I S R A E L Oslo Accords 20 n.m. Jerusalem Kisufim Re'im Bertini Commitment 12 n.m. Bethlehem A E Salah Ad-Deen S Fishing limit enforced by the Israeli Navy between January 2009 and November 2012 and at various other times Buffer Zone 3 D Mawasi Khan Yunis Wharf Planned A Gaza E bus and truck Hebron Al-Qarara D 6 n.m. convoy route Kisufim Fishing (AMA) Limit Today Khan Yunis As-Soltan Al-Othmani Rafah Beersheba Coastal Road Gaza As-Surij Strip Housing Jamal Abd An-Naser Project Khan Yunis Gush Kateef Camp Ein Hashlosha Al-Aqsa As-Sekka University (Khan No Fishing Zone Mawasi Rafah Wharf Yunis Campus) Salah Ad-Deen Al-Mawasi Abasan Aj-Jadida EGYPT ISRAEL JORDAN 1 nautical mile (Khan Yunis) (as-Saghira) Bani Suhella UNDP Rubble Crushing Site Khan Yunis Coastal Road Nirim Abasan Al-Mawasi al-Kabira (Rafah Qizan an-Najjar Al-Qarya as-Suwaydiya Khan Yunis Access and Physical Closures Gaza Strip Rafah Qa'al-Kharaba AccessAccess and and Physical Physical Closures Closures Gaza StripStrip Wastewater Treatment Plant Housing Project (Unfinished) Qa'al-Qurein Nir Oz Tal as-Sultan Locations Khuza'a Crossing Points Locations Abu Baker As-Sadeek Salah Ad-Deen Salah Umm Kemell Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant Open Bridge WastewaterElat Treatment Plant MagenOpen Umm al-Kilab Hospital Hospital Sewage Outlet Closed but Open for Exceptional Cases SewageF Outlet Ma'Closedon Plants but Open for Exceptional Cases O A B Philadelphi Corridor Al-Fukhkhari F A L Q U A Landmark WharfG Omar Ben Al-Khattab Landmark Wharf Rafah Camp Closed Landmark Wharf E G Y P T Rafah Closed Closed &Ei nRestricted ha-Bsor Areas Block O Closed & Restricted Areas Built-up Area Main City Salah Ad-Deen Gate 300 Meter No-Go Zone* 300 Meter No-Go Zone* Refugee Camp Town Rafah High Risk Zone Sufa High Risk Zone 7 Tunnels Al-Barzil Landfill Roads Block An-Naser Roads (Al-Bayuk) Reginal Context Fences and Barriers Main Road Local Road Salah Ad-Deen (closed) Regional Road Track 6 Rafah Crossing Sufa Crossing 2 Concrete Wall Reginal Context Al ’Awda Yesha Shokat Double Wire Fence with Watch Towers As-Sufi Boundaries 5 Former Fishing Limit Reginal Context Gaza International Airport Sufa Nir Yitskhak Former Fishing Limit destroyed /non-operational Governorate Boundary Effective Fishing Limit Holit Municipal Boundary Kerem Shalom Municipal Boundary Philadelphi Corridor Pri Gan 1950 Armistice (Green Line) 4 Kerem Shalom Crossing 1950 Armistice (Green Line) Karm abu Salem In November 2012, Israel declared again that the area stretching 300 meters from the border fence into the Gaza Strip would be a no-go zone. Incidents of fire on Palestinians have been reported at distances of up to 1,200 meters from the border. 1 Erez Crossing 2 Closed Crossings 3 The “Buffer Zone” 4 Kerem Shalom Crossing 5 Yasser Arafat 6 Rafah Crossing 7 Tunnels 8 The Fishermen’s Port International Airport The crossing serves individuals Karni Crossing was built in 1994 and After the 2005 disengagement from The crossing was opened in 2005 Israel opened the crossing in 1982 and The tightening of Israel’s closure of the The port is 4-5 meters deep and is traveling between Gaza and the served as Gaza's main commercial Gaza, Israel retained control over for the transfer of humanitarian aid The airport, which was officially in 2005, it was operated for the first Gaza Strip in 2007 led to a flourishing home to the small boats of Gaza’s West Bank and Israel. Since 1991, crossing point for goods entering an area inside Gaza that it calls the into the Gaza Strip. In mid-2007, it opened in 1998, operated until October time by the Palestinian Authority and of trade through tunnels that had been fishermen. Sailing is allowed up to Palestinians have had to obtain a permit and exiting the Strip. In June 2007, "buffer zone". This 300-meter wide began to serve as the main crossing 2000. In December 2001 and May Egypt under EU supervision and via dug under the Gaza-Egypt border. a distance of 6 nautical miles from in order to travel via Erez. Until the year after Hamas took control of Gaza, strip of land runs along the border point for goods sold to Gaza and for 2002, Israel bombed the control tower indirect Israeli control. After Hamas The easing of the closure in mid-2010 the coast, whereas the Oslo Accords 2000, thousands of Palestinian laborers the crossing was closed with the inside Gaza. In practice, at various small quantities of export which exit and runway. During Operation Cast took control of Gaza in June 2007, the brought a change in the types of goods permitted sailing up to a distance of traveled through the crossing every exception of a conveyer belt that was times and various points along the the Strip. As of March 2011, when Lead in 2009, the airport was further crossing was closed aside from limited that are transferred via the tunnels. In 20 nautical miles. There is no seaport month to jobs in Israel. Israel gradually used to transfer grain and animal border, Israel has prohibited access the conveyor belt at Karni Crossing destroyed and presently serves as openings by Egypt. After the Gaza addition to contraband and weapons, in the Gaza Strip. Construction began reduced the number of permits it issued feed until it was also closed in March into an area that stretches up to 1,500 ceased being used, it became the sole a site for foraging gravel and other flotilla incident in May 2010, Egypt the tunnels are now used mainly for the on a seaport, as agreed in the Oslo until March 2006 when a new policy 2011. Sufa Crossing was built in 1994 meters from the fence. In November operational commercial crossing for construction materials. opened Rafah on a regular basis for transfer of fuel and basic construction Accords, in July 2000 but was halted in was introduced, stating that travel and was used for the transfer of 2012, the military announced that it goods entering and exiting Gaza. limited categories of travellers. During materials such as gravel, cement and September after the Second Intifada would be allowed only in "exceptional construction materials to the Gaza would allow access up to 300 meters the first six months of 2013, an average steel, whose import via Kerem Shalom broke out. In September 2001, Israel humanitarian cases", a policy still in Strip. It was closed by Israel in 2008.
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