On August 7, Israeli Prime Minister B. Netanyahu announced that Israel was going to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. This decision was approved by the majority of the cabinet.

The Israelis would not have decided to take this step without the support and approval of the American administration. It is characteristic that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, M. Johnson, who visited Jerusalem the day before this event, publicly called the West Bank of the Jordan River Judea and Samaria, i.e. the biblical names of this territory, and promised to facilitate the introduction of these names into the official American language.

For almost half a century, all international documents implied that such a state would be created on the basis of the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, and its capital would be East Jerusalem.

Palestinian State by UN Resolution

Gaza is a narrow strip of land on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the total area of which is estimated at 367 square kilometers. At the beginning of the 20th century, less than 80 thousand people lived in this territory, mostly local........

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