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Gaza Strip 2020 As-Siafa Mapping Movement and Access Netiv Ha'asara Temporary Zikim Karmiya No Fishing Zone 1.5 nautical miles Yad Mordekhai January Gaza Strip 2020 As-Siafa Mapping Movement and Access Netiv Ha'asara Temporary Ar-Rasheed Wastewater Treatment Lagoons Sources: OCHA, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics of Statistics Bureau Central OCHA, Palestinian Sources: Erez Crossing 1 Al-Qarya Beit Hanoun Al-Badawiya (Umm An-Naser) Erez What is known today as the Gaza Strip, originally a region in Mandatory Palestine, was created Width 5.7-12.5 km / 3.5 – 7.7 mi through the armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt in 1949. From that time until 1967, North Gaza Length ~40 km / 24.8 mi Al- Karama As-Sekka the Strip was under Egyptian control, cut off from Israel as well as the West Bank, which was Izbat Beit Hanoun al-Jaker Road Area 365 km2 / 141 m2 Beit Hanoun under Jordanian rule. In 1967, the connection was renewed when both the West Bank and the Gaza Madinat Beit Lahia Al-'Awda Strip were occupied by Israel. The 1993 Oslo Accords define Gaza and the West Bank as a single Sheikh Zayed Beit Hanoun Population 1,943,398 • 48% Under age 17 July 2019 Industrial Zone Ash-Shati Housing Project Jabalia Sderot territorial unit within which freedom of movement would be permitted. However, starting in the camp al-Wazeer Unemployment rate 47% 2019 Q2 Jabalia Camp Khalil early 90s, Israel began a gradual process of closing off the Strip; since 2007, it has enforced a full Ash-Sheikh closure, forbidding exit and entry except in rare cases. Israel continues to control many aspects of Percentage of population receiving aid 80% An-Naser Radwan Salah Ad-Deen 2 life in Gaza, most of its land crossings, its territorial waters and airspace. Population density 5,453 per km July 2019 Palestine Ar-Rasheed Stadium Legislative Council Northern Remal Al-Karama Nir Am Southern Remal Gaza Sports Club Al-Azhar Ad-Darraj University Government At-Tuffah UNRWA Building Complex Compound 6 Fishing Zone Islamic al-Jaker Road University Legend Khalil al- Wazeer As-Sabra Gaza City Ash-Sheikh Ijleen Tal El-Hawa Old City ljdeedeh Mefalsim Crossing Points Al-Quds Al-Karama Open Closed Gaza Al-Montar Rd No. 10 Az-Zaitoun Al-Montar Ar-Rasheed Ash-Shuja'iyeh Hill Locations al-Jaker Road Nahal Oz Crossing Kfar Aza Salah Ad-Deen Dense urban Wastewater treatment plant Closed crossings 7 areas Karni Industrial Karni Crossing Water desalination plant Zone (closed) Al-Montar Az-Zahra Al-Mughraqa At-Turkman Refugee camp Sewage outlet Sa'ad (Abu Middein) Karni-Nezarim Nahal Oz Town Wharf Wadi Gaza Karni-Nezarim Omar Ben Al-Khattab Main city Hospital LEBANON Bridge Landmark Juhar ad-Dik Salah Ad-Deen Gaza landfill Roads Buffer Zone S e a An-Nuseirat Camp Wadi Gaza Main road 100 meters al-Jaker Road Coastal Road Acre Regional road 300 meters Al-Burej Camp Kfar Maimon Haifa Road 1,000 meters As-Sekka Az-Zawayda Salah Ad-Deen Tiberias Boundaries Deir al-Balah Wharf Al-Maghazi Camp Be'eri Nazareth Shokeda Municipal boundary MediterraneanDeir al-Balah 1950 Armistice (Green Line) Camp Al-Mussadar Concrete wall Deir al-Balah Scale: 1:100,000 Coastal Road ash-Shohada al-Jaker Road Wadi As-Salqa Jenin Middle Area Al-Ma'ani Tulkarm Tubas Kisufim ISRAEL Kisufim Re'im Buffer Zone 5 Nablus Salah Ad-Deen Mawasi Khan Yunis Wharf Al-Qarara Kisufim Tel Aviv As-Soltan Al-Othmani Coastal Road As-Surij West Ramallah River Jordan Jericho al-Jaker Road Bank Housing Jamal Abd An-Naser Project Khan Yunis Fishing Limit Today Gush Kateef Camp Ein Hashlosha Safe Passage route As-Sekka 20 n.m. Oslo Accords Al-Aqsa Jerusalem University (Khan Salah Ad-Deen between Gaza No Fishing Zone Yunis Campus) Abasan Aj-Jadida 15 n.m. Al-Mawasi and the West Bank 1 nautical mile (Khan Yunis) (as-Saghira) Bani Suhella 12 n.m. Bertini Commitment 53 km (1999-2000) 6 n.m. UNDP Rubble Bethlehem Crushing Site Khan Yunis Coastal Road Nirim Tarqumiyah Abasan Al-Mawasi Gaza Gaza Hebron al-Kabira D E A D S E A (Rafah Qizan an-Najjar Strip Al-Qarya as-Suwaydiya Khan Yunis Khan Yunis Qa'al-Kharaba 105 km Shortest route from Housing Project al-Jaker Road al-Jaker (Unfinished) Kerem Shalom to Qa'al-Qurein Rafah Nir Oz Tarqumiya Crossing Tal as-Sultan Khuza'a Abu Baker As-Sadeek Salah Ad-Deen Salah Umm Kemell Magen Umm al-Kilab Ma'on Plants Al-Fukhkhari Rafah Camp Omar Ben Al-Khattab EGYPT Rafah al-Jaker Road Ein ha-Bsor Block O Salah Ad-Deen Gate Rafah Sufa Al-Barzil Landfill EGYPT ISRAEL JORDAN 4 Salah a-Din Gate Block An-Naser (Al-Bayuk) Sufa Crossing Salah Ad-Deen (closed) 3 Rafah Crossing Closed crossings 7 Al ’Awda al-Jaker Road Yesha Shokat As-Sufi 8 Gaza International Airport Gaza Sufa Nir Yitskhak destroyed /non-operational International Airport Holit Kerem Shalom Kerem Shalom Crossing 2 Pri Gan Karm abu Salem Scale: 1:1,330,000 1 Erez Crossing 2 Kerem Shalom Crossing 3 Rafah Crossing 4 Salah a-Din Gate 5 Access Restricted 6 Fishing Zone 7 Closed crossings 8 Yasser Arafat Areas (Buffer Zone) International Airport The crossing, for pedestrians, is This is Gaza’s only commercial crossing, Opened in 1982, Rafah is the only crossing The Salah a-Din Gate is located According to the Israeli-Palestinian Karni Crossing was built in Gaza’s only access point to Israel and though some goods enter the Strip from for pedestrians between Gaza and Egypt. about four kilometers west of Rafah Israel restricts access to an area Interim Agreement (1995), Gaza 1994 and served as the main The airport, located on the the West Bank, and, particularly when Egypt through Salah a-Din Gate. Kerem From late 2005 to mid-2007, Egypt and the Crossing, and has been used for within Gaza that runs along the fishermen may sail to a distance of up to commercial crossing for the southern edge of Rafah City, Rafah Crossing is closed, also to the Shalom is located at the southernmost Palestinian Authority operated the crossing bringing goods into Gaza from Egypt perimeter fence separating it from 20 nautical miles off the coast. In practice, transfer of goods into and out was inaugurated in late 1998. outside world. In 1991, Israel canceled tip of the Gaza-Israel border and operates under EU supervision, with indirect Israeli since February 2018. On the Gaza side, Israel. Gisha’s attempts to receive however, Israel has not allowed access of the Strip. In June 2007, after Palestinian Authority Chairman the “General Exit Permit” and began under full Israeli control. While Israel control. Following the Hamas takeover, the crossing is controlled by Hamas exact information about access that far; in recent years, the fishing zone Hamas seized control of Gaza, Yasser Arafat and US President requiring Palestinian residents to ostensibly retracted its policy of economic the crossing was closed or operated officials in terms of both security restrictions in this area have yielded has ranged from three to nine nautical Israel shut down the crossing, Bill Clinton attended the inaugural obtain individual permits to cross warfare (2007-2010), when many everyday sporadically for a number of years. From and civilian matters. No Palestinian contradictory answers from Israeli miles most of the time. In 2019, Israel leaving only a conveyer belt ceremony. The airport was slated Erez. Since 1993, enforcement of items were blocked from entering the Strip, mid-2012 to mid-2013, the crossing Authority customs or government authorities over the years. According allowed fishing as far as 15 nautical miles used for transferring grains and to serve 700,000 passengers travel restrictions has become more it continues to limit entry of a long list of operated regularly and some 40,000 officials are present. From the time to the most recent response, Gaza off a small stretch of Gaza’s southern animal feed, which remained each year. Israel put a halt to its strict and the criteria for receiving items essential to industry, infrastructure crossings in both directions were recorded the crossing began operations until residents may approach up to shore for the first time. Restrictions operational until March 2011. operations in October 2000, after permits more narrow. Today permits and daily life, which it deems to be “dual- each month. From July 2013 to May 2018, June 2019, an average of 714 trucks 300 meters from the fence and are routinely enforced using live fire at Sufa Crossing was built in 1994 the start of the Second Intifada. are mostly given only in what Israel use.” Due to ongoing restrictions on what it remained mostly closed. Pressure on entered each month, compared to farmers may approach up to 100 boats and fishermen, resulting in loss and was used to transport In December 2001 and May 2002, refers to as “exceptional humanitarian goods can exit the Strip, especially to Egypt to open it, generated by the Great 8,962 trucks entering through Kerem meters. Israel enforces restrictions of life, injury and damage to equipment. construction materials into Gaza. Israel bombed the control tower cases, with an emphasis on urgent Gaza’s primary markets in the West Bank March of Return protests and deteriorating Shalom Crossing over the same aggressively, including through use of The Gaza Strip does not have a seaport, Israel closed it in 2008. Nahal Oz and the runway. What remained medical cases.” During the first half and Israel, the volume of goods exiting the humanitarian conditions in Gaza, led to the period of time.
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