which country is gaza city located?
Israel
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 Gaza ( / ˈɡɑːzə / ; Arabic : غزة Ġazzah , IPA : [ ˈɣazza ] ; Hebrew : עזה ' Azzah ) , also referred to as Gaza City , is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip , with a population of 515 @,@ 556 , making it the largest city in the State of Palestine . Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC , Gaza has been dominated by several different peoples and empires throughout its history . The Philistines made it a part of their pentapolis after the Ancient Egyptians had ruled it for nearly 350 years . 

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 After the war , the League of Nations granted quasi @-@ colonial authority over former Ottoman territories to Great Britain and France ; Gaza was included in the British Mandate of Palestine . 

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 Today , Gaza serves as the administrative capital of the Gaza Governorate . It contains the Palestinian Legislative Council building , as well as the headquarters of most of the Palestinian Authority ministries . 

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 Gaza experienced destructive earthquakes in 1903 and 1914 . In 1917 , during World War I , British forces captured the city . Gaza grew significantly in the first half of the 20th @-@ century under Mandatory rule . The population of the city swelled as a result of the Palestinian exodus during the 1948 Arab @-@ Israeli War . Gaza came under Egyptian rule until it was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War . Gaza became a center of political resistance during the First Intifada , and under the Oslo Accords of 1993 , it was assigned to be under the direct control of the newly established Palestinian Authority . Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005 . By 2007 , Hamas emerged both as the victor in Palestinian elections and in factional fighting with rival Fatah in the city and in the wider Gaza Strip and has since been the sole governing authority . Israel subsequently blockaded the Strip and launched assaults against it in 2008 – 2009 , 2012 and 2014 , as a response to rocket attacks . 

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 Gaza is home to a small Palestinian Christian minority of about 3 @,@ 500 people . The majority live in the Zaytun Quarter of the Old City and belong to the Greek Orthodox , Roman Catholic , and Baptist denominations . In 1906 there were about 750 Christians , of which 700 were Orthodox and 50 were Roman Catholic . 
