Gaza Strip
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4.8
- proper noun
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Franja de Gaza
- The Israelis had offered to give the Gaza Strip back to the Egyptians, but they wouldn't take it.
- withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
- Gaza Strip and Israel
- Gaza Strip in Egypt
The entire population of the Gaza Strip is not Hamas.
- The entire population of the Gaza Strip is not Hamas.
- Israel, to remind people, does not occupy the Gaza Strip.
- Over a third of the aid is just now making its way into the Gaza Strip.
- You're trying to get more aid into the Gaza Strip, but there's still been a struggle actually getting aid in.
- We also know that when Hamas fires rockets from Gaza towards Israel trying to hit Israeli civilians, they very often fall short in the Gaza Strip.
- So unfortunately, the crisis for now in the Gaza Strip continues and Egypt continues to build its shelters.
- Because this terror attack didn't just, it wasn't just awful where Hamas could reach there in the areas abutting the Gaza Strip.
Examples
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Everybody knows how desperate the situation in the Gaza Strip is after almost three years of blockade.
Academic text (2011) -
With the emergence of the Gaza Strip as a political entity in 1949, its population underwent profound change.
Academic text (1990) -
What does development mean in the context of the West Bank and Gaza Strip?
Academic text (1991) -
The entire population of the Gaza Strip is not Hamas.
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Hence, the question is: Are the West Bank and Gaza Strip external to Israel, or are they not?
Academic text (1994) -
By 1992, fourteen settlements had been established in the Gaza Strip, and their population was increasing at a tremendous rate.
Academic text (2008) -
You're trying to get more aid into the Gaza Strip, but there's still been a struggle actually getting aid in.
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The Palestinians in Judea-Samaria and the Gaza Strip claim a significant geographical area as a national homeland.
Academic text (1990) -
The economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have suffered declines since the beginning of the intifada.
Academic text (1991) -
Travel between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is extremely difficult.
Synonyms
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4.4
A coastal area in the Palestinian territories between Israel and Egypt
Surface Forms
Morphology
The name combines the place name 'Gaza' with 'strip' meaning a long narrow piece of land, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a narrow coastal region called Gaza. This place‑naming pattern is cross‑linguistically common, making the overall meaning directly compositional and transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Gaza Strip comes from the city of Gaza and the word strip, which means a long, narrow piece of land. It describes the thin coastal area next to Israel and Egypt, so today 'Gaza Strip' simply means that specific narrow region.