POLS 3260 Lecture 15: POLS 3260- lecture 15.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3260
• Professor: Saeed Rahnema

Document Summary

1949- gaza went directly under the control of egypt, they made it into a free trade zone and gaza prospered. 1967- israelis take over gaza strip and start to build settlements, although the settlers were 3% population of gaza they controlled close to 40% of the land in the mediterranean area that was the most prosperous. Some settlers later developed some relationship with local gaza population. Gaza has 1. 8 million in population, vast majority are refugees. The settlements at the later time with the decision of aria sharam who decided that keeping settlement in gaza is expensive and problematic. And looking back at the first taking over of gaza a lot of israelis opposed this as. Gaza was such a small population of arabs. With the constant confrontation between settlers, keeping this settlement became too expensive and sharam decided to remove them, although reactions existed. Settlers disagreed but he sent idf and forcefully removed settlements.