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GAZ Volga

GAZ Volga (Волга) is a series of passenger cars from Gorky Automobile in Nizhny Novgorod, produced from 1956 to 2010, featuring both rear- and front-wheel drive options.

GAZ-24

The GAZ-24 Volga (ГАЗ-24 «Волга») is a mid-size Soviet sedan built by GAZ from 1970 to 1992, with over 1.4 million made and used widely as a taxi and official car.

GAZ-51 (ГАЗ-51)

The GAZ-51 was a Soviet 2.5-ton, 4×2 cargo truck produced by the Gorky Automobile Plant in Gorky from 1946 to 1975, with nearly 3.5 million built.

Gaz-i Sikandari

The Gaz-i Sikandari (گز سکندری) was a standardized measuring rod, about 32 digits long, introduced by Sikandar Lodi as the official unit for measuring cultivated fields in land revenue assessment.

Gaz-System

Gaz-System is Poland's 100 percent state-owned gas transmission system operator, founded in 2004, which runs the high-pressure pipeline network and the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal in Świnoujście.

Gaza

Gaza, Arabic Ghazzah, is a Palestinian city on the Levant's southern coastal plain, continuously inhabited for over three millennia and known in the Iron Age as one of the five Philistine Pentapolis cities.

Gaza City

Gaza City (غزة, Ghazzah), largest city of the Gaza Strip on the Mediterranean coast; over 5,000 years of habitation, historic centre on UNESCO Tentative List; 83% of buildings damaged and famine confirmed after the 2023–2025 war.

Gaza Empire

The Gaza Empire was a Nguni kingdom founded by Soshangane in the 1830s that ruled southern Mozambique until its last king, Gungunhana, was captured by Portugal in 1895.

Gaza flotilla raid

Gaza flotilla raid: Israeli interception on 31 May 2010 of the six-ship Gaza Freedom Flotilla, including the Mavi Marmara, 72 nautical miles offshore; nine passengers killed, blockade legality disputed between the Palmer and HRC reports.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Gaza Freedom Flotilla: six-vessel civilian aid convoy intercepted by Israeli forces 72 nautical miles offshore on 31 May 2010, killing nine passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara; also refers to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's continuing Gaza blockade-challenging voyages, including the 2025 Madleen mission.

Gaza genocide

Gaza genocide: allegation that Israel's campaign in Gaza since 7 October 2023 constitutes genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention; advanced by UN bodies, Amnesty, and genocide scholars, contested by Israel and some legal experts; ICJ case South Africa v. Israel pending.

Gaza genocide denial

Gaza genocide denial: rejection of the claim that Israel's post-October 2023 Gaza war constitutes genocide. Covers ICJ proceedings, Amnesty and UN findings, scholarly denial-technique analysis, and counter-arguments on genocidal intent.

Gaza genocide recognition

Gaza genocide recognition: acts by UN bodies, the ICJ (South Africa v. Israel), human rights organizations like Amnesty, HRW, B'Tselem, genocide scholars, and states declaring Israel's Gaza conduct genocide, with Israeli denial and contested criticism.

Gaza humanitarian crisis

The Gaza Strip humanitarian crisis is the prolonged shortage of food, water, and health care affecting Gaza's 2.1 million residents since the war began in October 2023.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), US- and Israeli-backed aid distributor created February 2025, ran guarded hubs bypassing the UN from late May 2025, then wound down November 24, 2025 amid casualty criticism.

Gaza peace plan

The Gaza peace plan is Trump's twenty-point framework (September 2025) ending the Gaza war: ceasefire October 10, hostage-prisoner exchanges, Board of Peace governance, International Stabilization Force, UN Resolution 2803, and phased Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal.

Gaza Province

Gaza Province (Província de Gaza), Mozambique: southern province, capital Xai-Xai, population about 1.4 million, agriculture-based economy, drought-prone, and hardest hit by the January 2026 floods that inundated about 40 percent of its territory. Distinct from the Gaza Strip.

Gaza Solidarity Encampment (Columbia University)

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestinian student tent camp on Columbia University's South Lawn, April 17-30, 2024, organized by CUAD, SJP, and JVP to demand divestment, transparency, and amnesty; it sparked nationwide campus encampments and ended in NYPD clearances and over 100 arrests.

Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة)

Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة): Palestinian territory of 378 km² between Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean; Egyptian-ruled 1948–1967, Israeli-occupied 1967–2005, blockaded since 2007, devastated by the war since October 2023 under a fragile 2025 ceasefire.

Gaza Strip famine

Gaza Strip famine: IPC Phase 5 famine confirmed in Gaza Governorate August 2025, first Middle East famine declaration; over 500,000 in catastrophic conditions; Israel rejected it; downgraded to Phase 3 after the October 2025 ceasefire.

Gaza Strip under Resolution 2803

Gaza Strip under Resolution 2803: UN Security Council resolution of 17 November 2025 endorsing Trump's 20-point Gaza plan, creating the Board of Peace transitional administration and the International Stabilization Force, with Chapter VII ambiguity and the NCAG Palestinian committee.

Gaza War (2008–2009)

The Gaza War (2008–2009), Israel's Operation Cast Lead, was a 22-day conflict against Hamas in the Gaza Strip from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009, killing 1,383 Palestinians and 13 Israelis and prompting the UN Goldstone report.

Gaza war order of battle

Gaza war order of battle: formations and commanders of Hamas's Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (30,000-40,000 fighters, tunnel network) and the IDF's Operation Swords of Iron deployment from October 2023 onward.

Gaza war protests at Columbia University

Gaza war protests at Columbia University: pro-Palestinian student campaign begun April 17, 2024 with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment (50 tents, CUAD), demanding ceasefire and divestment; NYPD clearances April 18 and April 30, Hamilton Hall occupation, and a national campus encampment movement.

Gaza war protests at universities

Student-led antiwar demonstrations and encampments against Israel's Gaza war, starting at Columbia University April 17, 2024, spreading to 100+ US campuses and abroad, demanding divestment; 97% peaceful per ACLED.

Gaza war protests in Israel

Gaza war protests in Israel: demonstrations since October 2023 by the Hostage Families Forum and allies demanding hostage deals, an end to the war, and elections; police wartime bans, court rulings, and treatment of Palestinian citizens distinguish them.

Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom

Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom: pro-Palestine demonstrations since 7 October 2023, including London marches by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, campus encampments, and Palestine Action proscription arrests.

Gaza war protests in the United States

Gaza war protests in the United States: pro-Palestinian demonstration wave after October 7, 2023, spanning street marches and 2024 campus encampments; demands of ceasefire, divestment, and ending US support for the war; noted for scale and political fallout.

Gaza–Israel conflict

The Gaza–Israel conflict is the armed struggle between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian groups over Gaza. Key facts: 2007 blockade, 7 October 2023 attack, 2023–2025 war, ceasefires, UNSCR 2803, over $70 billion reconstruction needs.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a 2025 UK documentary by Basement Films, directed by Karim Shah, reported by Ramita Navai; dropped by the BBC, aired by Channel 4 on 2 July 2025, released by Zeteo, and winner of the 2026 BAFTA TV Award for Current Affairs.