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Gazan

Gazan

9 7.4
A person from the Gaza Strip
  • noun
  • /ˈɡæzən/
: gazano
  • Anees, a Gazan who was with Rachel Corrie when she died eight years ago, answers the call.

Gave it to Egypt because Egypt signed a peace treaty and how how many know that Israel said to the Gazans, OK, we're leaving.

Examples

  • Morsi has thrown it open 24 hours a day so that any wounded Gazan can seek treatment in Egypt.

  • It turns out that products of Gazan-grown produce from these greenhouses were denied entry into Israel as an export, thus denying these Gazans engaged in operating the greenhouses the needed income from distribution of the produce inside Israel.

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  • Good question at this point to ask Americans: who wants to be a Gazan?

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  • A good question to ask Americans at this point is, who wants to be a Gazan?

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  • Morsi has thrown it open 24 hours a day so that any wounded Gazan can seek treatment in Egypt.

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  • No Jew would ever feel safe in such a situation—just as no Gazan is safe now.

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  • But the bottom line, which I think we should all remember, is that for most Gazans, it really doesn't matter whether it's mostly Israel's fault or mostly Hamas's fault.

  • Two trucks that were transporting goods from Israel into the Gaza Strip were damaged by mortar shells on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing.

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  • Anees, a Gazan who was with Rachel Corrie when she died eight years ago, answers the call.

  • Very close to the northern Gazan border, Nofar Gal's family has four pets—a dog named Pitzy and three cats—in Yad Mordechai.

Synonyms

Palestinian
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A person from Palestine or whose family comes from there

is about being from or living in a specific coastal region
12 4.9

A person whose family comes from the Arab community of Palestine

is about being from or living in a particular city or area

Surface Forms

Gazan singular
Gazans plural

Etymology

Gazan names a person from Gaza and the ending -an means 'from' or 'of', as in Jordanian. So a Gazan is someone who lives in or comes from Gaza.