Gaza City

**Gaza City**
	ancient Levantine metropolis and modern city in Gaza Strip A street in central Gaza city, February 23, 2025
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Instance of	city; big city; Municipality of Palestine type A;
Part of	Gaza Strip;
Location	Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip, Southern Levant, Fertile Crescent
Head of government	Nizar Hijazi;
Inception	15th century BC;
Significant event	Siege of Gaza; Siege of Gaza; Siege of Gaza; Siege of Gaza City;
Population	590,481 (2017);
Area	45 km²;
Elevation above sea level	30 m;
Different from	Gaza;
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	31° 30′ 27″ N, 34° 27′ 35″ E
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located in the administrative territorial entity Palestine ▷ Gaza Governorate

Maps of Gaza CityMap of Gaza City

Gaza Strip

Omar Mukhtar Street in February 2025

Great Mosque of Gaza

Church of Saint Porphyrius

Qasr al-Basha

Sayed al-Hashim Mosque

Rimal before the Gaza war

Rimal in October 2023

History

Hellenistic period

Silver drachma minted in Gaza, Palestine (450-331 BC)
The Battle of Gaza in 312 BC

Roman period

Statue of Zeus that was unearthed in Gaza in the 20th century

Byzantine period

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Early Islamic period

Depiction of a Gaza building in the Byzantine Umm ar-Rasas mosaics, circa 8th century, during the Abbasid Caliphate

Crusader and Ayyubid periods

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Ottoman period

Painting of Gaza by David Roberts, 1839, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
Gaza in 1841, as mapped by the British Royal Engineers after the [[Oriental Crisis of 1840
Muslims studying the Qur'an with Gaza in the background, painting by Harry Fenn, circa 1884
The Old Town, Gaza (1862–1863). Picture by Frances Frith

Stages of conflict and occupation

surrender to British forces, 1918

Israeli occupation and colonisation

Construction by the Nahal of the Israeli settlement of Netzarim, in the south Gaza-city, November 1972.
Palestinian schoolgirls returning home come across Israeli soldiers frisking a group of Palestinian men, November 1986
Palestinian demonstration during First Intifada in Gaza Strip, 21 December 1987
Armed Israeli bulldozer destroying a Palestinian home in Gaza during the Second Intifada, 2001
Destruction in Gaza-city after Israeli bombardment, 22 November 2012
Residential tower in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombardment on the morning of 8 October 2023