EGYPT

EGYPT / مِصر

"Gaza Part of Arab Nation". Re-occupation of the Gaza Strip.
Map of Gaza Strip.
Stamp issued on 04.05.1957.
Face value: 10 milliemes of Egyptian pound.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 26 x 43 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 507.
- Scott No. 394.
- StampWorld No. 514.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 528.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 395.

The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة) is a narrow strip of land on the shores of the Mediterranean, bordering for 51 kilometers with the southwest of Israel and for 11 kilometers with the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt). It is currently a self-governed Palestinian territory that, together with the West Bank, makes up the State of Palestine governed by the Palestinian National Authority. After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, during the First World War, France and Great Britain divided up the territory, leaving the area of ​​ Palestine undefined; and between 1920 and 1948 the strip was part of the British Mandate for Palestine. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the territory was occupied by the Egyptian army, and on September 22, 1948 the Government of all Palestinians was proclaimed in Gaza by the Arab League. During the Suez crisis in 1956, the strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops, who withdrew in 1957 (the year of issuance of this stamp). Egypt maintained its occupation of the Gaza Strip until 1967.