In 2005, Israel turned over the Gaza Strip to terrorists including al Qaeda.
Today, Israel maintains a security buffer between the Egyptian controlled Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip.
It saw the Gaza Strip fall to the militant Hamas movement in an election in 2006.
There is also growing evidence that Salafist cells have established themselves in the Gaza Strip.
Iran has seeded Southern Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank with millions of missiles.
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An official of the militant Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip praised the current attack.
Such improvements are being facilitated by the now-essentially-open border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt .
Similar rallies were held across the West Bank, East Jerusalem and even in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the situation for the population of the Gaza Strip becomes ever more precarious.
Having withdrawn from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Israel washed its hands of the territory.
But the poll in the Gaza strip, where Hamas is strong, was put off.
For 27 years we had complete control of the West Bank and Gaza strip.
The security implications of an outright Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip cannot be overstated.
Those talks were suspended after Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip that ended in mid-January.
Hamas, which won the latest general election, in 2006, maintains its hold on the Gaza Strip.
Olmert claims that today there are some 3.8 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Such fences are already used in the Gaza Strip to protect settlements near to Palestinian population centres.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya accused Israel of an "unjustified and serious escalation" in the Gaza Strip.
Another awkward complication is that Israel suggests that the Palestinians annex land adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
"What Israel is letting in is not enough to rebuild the Gaza Strip, " he told the BBC.
The Israeli military killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike and a ground clash.
All of us in the Gaza Strip can identify with someone who has experienced living without freedom.
Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood both condemned the U.S. for killing him.
During the day, three young Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"Let Hamas be upset, we don't care, " he said, of the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip.
Of the 1m people bottled up in the Gaza strip, more than half rely on emergency UN rations.
Renewed violence broke out in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, with five Palestinians reportedly killed by Israeli fire.
Israel's assault in January on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has failed to blot Hamas out of the equation.
Some 27% of the West Bank is in Palestinian hands, along with 70% of the tiny Gaza strip.
Palestinians have faced political stagnation since the Islamic militant Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip five years ago.
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