The Gaza Strip is a territory on the eastren coast o the Mediterranean Sea that mairches Egyp on the soothwast (11 km) an Israel on the east an north (51 km (32 mi)). It is 41 kilometre (25 mi) lang, an frae 6 tae 12 kilometre (3.7 tae 7.5 mi) wide, wi a tot area o 365 square kilometre (141 sq mi). The population o the Gaza Strip is aboot 1.7 million fowk. The population is maistly Sunni Muslim. Wi a yeirly growth rate o aboot 3.2%, the Gaza Strip haes the 7t heichest population growth rate in the warld.
The Gaza Strip acquired its current northren an eastren mairches efter the cessation o fechtin in the 1948 war, confirmt bi the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement on 24 Februar 1949. Airticle V o the Agreement declarit that the demarcation line wis tae nae be an internaitional mairch. The Gaza Strip continued tae be occupied bi Egyp. At first Gaza Strip wis offeecially admeenistered bi the Aw-Palestine Govrenment, estaiblisht bi the Arab League in September 1948. Frae the dissolution o the Aw-Palestine Govrenment in 1959 til 1967, the Gaza Strip wis directly admeenistered bi an Egyptian militar govrenor. Israel capturt the Gaza Strip frae Egyp in the Sax-Day War in 1967. Pursuant tae the Oslo Accords signt in 1993, the Palestinian Authority becam the admeenistrative body that govrened Palestinian population centres. Israel maintainit control o the airspace, territorial watters an mairch crossins apairt frae the laund mairch wi Egyp. Israel widrew frae Gaza in 2005. Syne Julie 2007, follaein the 2006 Palestinian legislative election an follaein the Hamas takeover in 2007, Hamas haes functioned as the de facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, formin an alternative Hamas Govrenment in Gaza.
The Gaza Strip forms pairt o the Palestinian territories, nou claimit bi the State o Palestine.
