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A. Egypt occupied Gaza before Israel seized it in the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel’s northern Arab neighbor Lebanon did not participate in the war in any significant way. Israel removed all troops and settlements from Gaza in 2005, but it is still considered an occupying power because it controls air, sea and most land access.
C. A gambling center and Special Administrative Region of China, Macau has 58,370 people per square mile, according to the latest population estimates and area measurements from the CIA World Factbook. In comparison, the United States has an average of about 95 people for every square mile of land.
D. In 1947, he United Nations divided land ruled by the British into the State of Palestine and the State of Israel. After the new state of Israel fought its Arab neighbors in 1948, Palestine’s Gaza and the West Bank were occupied by Egypt and Jordan. They were taken by Israel in 1967. The UN still recognizes Palestine as a sovereign state although it has never existed as an independent nation.
B. The eviction of six Palestinian families from homes in Jerusalem ignited tensions in a city which is sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and also was to be the capital of Palestine under the 1947 UN plan. Any “two-state” peace plan has been complicated by Israeli settlers taking over large areas of the West Bank since 1967.