The Gaza Strip (I/P)

Question 1

How big is the Gaza Strip

Answer 1

363 km2 northeast of the Sinai Peninsula

Question 2

Population of the Gaza Strip

Answer 2

More than 1 million (official) but larger unofficially

Question 3

What is the areas main economic problem

Answer 3

The extreme poverty of the larger number of Palestinian Arab refugees living there

Question 4

1987

Answer 4

Rioting among Gaza’s Palestinians market the beginning of the first Intifada

Question 5

What did continued unrest lead to

Answer 5

An agreement in 1993 between Israel and the PLO, granting limited self-rule to the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip and West Bank

Question 6

What did a breakdown in further negotiations in 2000 lead to

Answer 6

Another outbreak of violence

Question 7

What did Israel do in 2005 in attempt to stem the fighting

Answer 7

Israel withdrew all its soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip, and control of the territory was transferred to the Palestinians.

Question 8

Why is Gaza difficult to live in

Answer 8

• High unemployment
• Poor
• Economy crippled by an international boycott
• Israel withholds Palestinian tax revenues that they desperately need