Gaza’s strategic position—the key to controlling access to Sinai, to Palestine and the wider Middle East—has made it an enviable prize for thousands of years. Jean-Pierre Filiu, author of Gaza: A History, explains why during the First World War the British and Ottoman Empires fought so hard to control it.
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