...................... Hamas and its supporters....................
........ Especially those who send funds from other countries to continue on with this stupid fucking holy war..................
overnment
- Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeha
- President Aziz Duwaik
Establishment
- Established January, 2006
Population
- 2011 estimate 1,657,155
GDP (PPP) 2009 estimate
- Total $770 million (-)
- Per capita $3,100 (-)
Since 2006, the Governance of the Gaza Strip has been performed by the Hamas administration, which is often referred to as the Hamas government in Gaza. Hamas control over the area was established after the Hamas party won the Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006, and ousted Fatah officials during the Battle of Gaza in 2007. Hamas' political and military rival, Fatah, controls the West Bank. Both regimes - the Palestinian National Authority and the Hamas administration - regard themselves as the sole legitimate Palestinian government.
Since the division between the two parties, there have been conflicts between Hamas and various similar factions operating in Gaza and with Israel, most notably the Gaza War of 2008-2009. The radicalization of the Gaza Strip also brought internal conflicts between various groups, in events like 2009 Hamas crackdown on Jund Ansar Allah, an Al-Qaeda affiliated group, resulting in 22 people killed; and the April 2011 Hamas crackdown on a Salafist group, involved in Vittorio Arrigoni's murder.
Since the division between the two Palestinian parties, while the West Bank remained relatively quiet, the Gaza Strip has been a scene of constant conflict between the Hamas and various factions against Israel, most notable the Gaza War of 2008-2009.
In 2009, The radicalization of the Gaza Strip also brought the 2009 Hamas crackdown on Jund Ansar Allah, an Al-Qaeda affiliated group, resulting in 22 people killed. The event came after a radical Salafist cleric declared an "Islamic Emirate" in Gaza, accusing Hamas of failing to implement a full Sharia law. The undermining of the Hamas authority resulted in violent crackdown on the group, which took 2 days.
In March 2010, it was reported that Ahmed Jabari described the security situation in Gaza as deteriorating and that Hamas was starting to lose control.[19] Nevertheless, the Hamas continued to execute its authority..
The economy of the Hamas administered Gaza Strip is severely hampered by high population density, limited land access, strict internal and external security controls, the effects of Israeli military operations, and restrictions on labor and trade access across the border. Per capita income (PPP) was estimated at US$ 3,100 in 2009, a position of 164th in the world.[24] Seventy percent of the population is below the poverty line according to a 2009 estimate.[24] Gaza Strip industries are generally small family businesses that produce textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs;
the Israelis have established some small-scale modern industries in an industrial centre. Israel supplies the Gaza Strip with electricity.... Before the second Palestinian uprising in September 2000, around 25,000 workers from the Gaza Strip (about 2% of the population) used to work in Israel every day.
In 2010 approximately 1.6 million Palestinians lived in the Gaza Strip, of whom almost 1.0 million are UN-registered refugees.[52] The majority of the Palestinians are descendants (the Palestinians are the only refugee group to have ever been given hereditary refugee status) of refugees who were driven from or left their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The Strip's population has continued to increase since that time, one of the main reasons being a total fertility rate of almost 5 children per woman. In a ranking by total fertility rate, this places Gaza 26th of 223 regions.
Most of the inhabitants are Sunni Muslims, with an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 Christians making the region 99.3 percent Sunni Muslim and 0.7 percent Christian. There is also a Shia Muslim population in the enclave Before the Hamas takeover, approximately 500 women from the former Soviet Union lived in Gaza. During the Soviet era, the Communist Party subsidized university studies for thousands of students from Yemen, Egypt, Syria and the territories. Some of them married during their studies and brought their Russian and Ukrainian spouses back home. When Hamas came to power, over half of them left the Strip via the Erez crossing to Amman and flew back to Eastern Europe
Website to learn about Gaza Strip news http://www.cfr.org/http://www.qassam.ps/http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/http://www.ikhwanweb.com/tagView.php?id=Hamashttp://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/hamas-launches-official-website/http://www.cair.com/Interview with Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYMd6ECm-4Gaza City: 'people are ready to fight'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_gU0r1HeM 
Topic: Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalates following the death of Hamas leader