Rafah is situated in the southern part of the Gaza Strip segment of Palestine, at the border with Egypt. In ancient times, it was an important settlement on the Othmans road, connecting Egypt with the Al-Sham countries (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine).
According to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel at Camp David in 1982, Rafah was divided into two parts: One part w...
Usually border lines on GE are marked by yellow lines. Throughout the globe there are several examples of red border lines. Here is an example of red, yellow, and orange lines all next to each other. At this moment, I'm not sure why there are different colors to these lines. I'm guessing Yellow is for countries, red is for special territories (like the Gaza Strip or West Bank in Israel), li...
This is the settlement in Gaza evecuated by the Israeli army today, August 18, 2005. All residents were removed. Homes will be demolished in the weeks ahead and the land turned over to the Palestinian Authority.
Most of the alignment of the Death Strip along the inner German border still can be seen today. It was an extensive system of fortifications that ran the entire 1381 km (858 miles) length of the border between East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR) and West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, FRG). During the Cold War (1952-1990) the border system was used by the East German g...
After the six-days war (name in the occidental world),also named as "disaster war" or "war of June" in somes of the Arabs countries; The Sinaï desert became, de facto,in 1967, Israeli territory.
The authorities of Israel began to build a new city, closely to Gaza strip, Yamit.
According to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, all the Sinaï desert came bac...
I created an atlas that shows de facto independent countries and sovereign base areas in Cyprus that do not appear in Google Earth. Included are Transnistria, Kosovo, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Somaliland, Puntland, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus Sovereign Bases, Gaza Strip, Palestinian National Authority A Areas..
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