"It is not enough to simply ensure that supplies such as drugs and consumables are able to enter the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The U.S.has also pledged an additional $10 million for the construction of five new UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Egypt has been mediating between rival Palestinian factions Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Many have little sympathy for those in the Gaza Strip, where militants have been firing rockets at Israel for several years.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Mr.Netanyahu also addressed an upsurge in violence in the Gaza Strip,which is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

Egypt announced it is temporarily lifting the blockade it has been enforcing, along with Israel, on the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The deal would include the release of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The soldier is being held in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip but has not been seen since his capture.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

In the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians who approached the border fence were killed in an Israeli air strike.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Cairo is also still reeling from criticism during Israel's war in the Gaza Strip early this year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Israel's Cabinet angrily rejected the United Nations resolution, saying the army's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip last December and January was legitimate self-defense.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Israel has begun moving cargo from the aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip after inspecting it.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Aside from keeping weapons out of the Gaza Strip, one of Israel's goals in mounting the blockade was to pressure Gazans to topple Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Garwood says Gaza's health-care system also is not functioning as well as it could because Israel is preventing many medical professionals from leaving the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The World Health Organization is renewing its appeal to the Israeli government to allow necessary medical equipment, spare parts,and repair crews to enter the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid more than three years ago and has been held in the Gaza Strip ever since.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

But Prime Minister Netanyahu said the naval blockade will remain in force to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But he did not say how the Palestinian authorities planned to do that, since the Gaza Strip is under the control of Hamas and not the Palestinian Authority.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Shortly after the Israeli commando raid protesters throughout Europe and the Middle East took to the streets to demand the end of the blockade on the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The vote is supposed to take place in the West Bank, which is controlled by Mr.Abbas, and the Gaza Strip which is ruled by its rival faction Hamas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Israel pulled out of the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in 2005, and today it is controlled by Hamas, a violent Islamic militant group that refuses to recognize the Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

He was the first witness in a probe examining the government's decision to send naval commandos to intercept six ships trying to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Mr.Netanyahu also warned that the Islamic militant group Hamas could seize control of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, just as it ousted Mr.Abbas from the Gaza Strip in 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The mission found the repeated firing of rockets and mortars into southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip constituted war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Mr.Netanyahu's base of support is among Israelis who fear that an independent Palestinian state might fall to radical Islamist rule and threaten the Jewish State - much like has happened in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

The flotilla aimed to break a blockade that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip in an effort to stop weapons from reaching the region that is controlled by the militant Hamas movement.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

(...) Steinitz said it is an anti-Semitic resolution in which the same right of self-defense that is allowed to the United States in Afghanistan and Russia in Chechnya is denied to Israel in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18