Editing Gaza Strip (section)

===1959–1967: Egyptian occupation===
{{Main|Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt}}

[[File:Che Guevara in Gaza.jpg|thumb|[[Che Guevara]] visiting Gaza in 1959]]After the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government in 1959, under the excuse of pan-Arabism, Egypt continued to occupy Gaza until 1967. Egypt never annexed the Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor.<ref>[http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000503 "How has the Gaza Strip influenced the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120155902/http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000503 |date=20 January 2012 }} entry at ProCon.org citing "An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab–Israeli Conflict"</ref> The influx of over 200,000 refugees from former Mandatory Palestine, roughly a quarter of [[Palestinian refugee|those who fled or were expelled from their homes]] during, and in the aftermath of, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War into Gaza<ref>Elisha Efrat, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi59AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 ''The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation and Disengagement,''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102100714/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi59AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |date=2 November 2022 }} Routledge, 2006 pp.74–75.</ref> resulted in a dramatic decrease in the standard of living. Because the Egyptian government restricted movement to and from Gaza, its inhabitants could not look elsewhere for gainful employment.<ref name="JB">{{cite journal |last=Baster |first=James |title=Economic Problems in the Gaza Strip |journal=Middle East Journal |volume=9 |issue=3 |year=1955 |pages=323–327 |jstor=4322725 }}</ref>