Editing Gaza City (section)

===Stages of conflict and occupation===
[[File:Gaza after WWI 2.jpg|thumb|Gaza after surrender to British forces, 1918|left]]
While leading the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Forces]] during World War I, the British won control of the city during the [[Third Battle of Gaza]] in 1917.<ref name="Ring and Salkin3" /> After the war, Gaza was included in Mandatory Palestine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/brit-mandate-pal-isr-prime.html|title=Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Primer|access-date=2009-01-19|publisher=Middle East Research Information Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122095032/http://merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/brit-mandate-pal-isr-prime.html|archive-date=2009-01-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 1930s and 1940s, Gaza underwent major expansion. New neighborhoods were built along the coast and the southern and eastern plains. International organizations and missionary groups funded most of this construction.<ref name="Abu-Lughod">Dumper and Abu-Lughod, 2007, p.155.</ref>

In the 1947 [[United Nations Partition Plan]], Gaza was assigned to be part of an Arab state in Palestine but was [[Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt|occupied by Egypt]] following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Gaza's growing population was augmented by an influx of refugees from nearby cities, towns and villages that were captured by Israel. In 1957, Egyptian president [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] made a number of reforms in Gaza, which included expanding educational opportunities and the civil services, providing housing, and establishing local security forces.<ref name="Feldman">Feldman, 2008, pp.8–9.</ref>

Gaza was occupied by Israel during the 1967 [[Six-Day War]] following the defeat of the [[Egyptian Army]]. Frequent conflicts have erupted between Palestinians and the Israeli authorities in the city since the 1970s. The tensions led to the [[First Intifada]] in 1987. Gaza was a center of confrontation during this uprising,<ref name="Ring and Salkin3" /> and economic conditions in the city worsened.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.palestinechronicle.com/sara-roy-the-gaza-economy/ |author-link=Sara Roy|title=The Economy of Gaza |access-date=2009-01-19 |last=Roy |first=Sara |date=4 October 2006|publisher=Palestine Information Center }}</ref>