Gaza: A History

A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF GAZA – FROM THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT

Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts and the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza was contested by everyone from the Pharaohs, Persians, Greeks and Romans to the Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans and British. And, since 1948, it has...