The Gaza envelope is the strip of southern Israel within 7 kilometers of the Gaza Strip border. The 2015 opening said communities there "have been suffering from incessant terrorist attacks such as infiltration attempts, mortar shells and Qassam rockets," and that the Knesset acted "after several years of terrorist attacks." Today's opening describes the area only as being "within range of mortar shells and Qassam rockets launched from the Gaza Strip," without the word terrorist; it survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving at the opening today learns the Gaza envelope is within range of rocket fire, and not that Wikipedia's own opening once called that fire, and the infiltrations alongside it, terrorist attacks.
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Gaza envelope ( , Otef Aza ) refers to the region of Israel surrounding the Gaza Strip , to the depth of a few miles, and includes the town of Sderot as well as many Kibbutzim and Moshavim . Since the Second Intifada , and especially since Israel withdrew unilaterally from all settlements and bases in Gaza in 2005, the communities in the area surrounding the Gaza strip have been suffering from incessant terrorist attacks such as infiltration attempts, mortar shells and Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip. In recent years, more remote communities outside the Envelope have become exposed to frequent shelling from Gaza, including Ashkelon , Netivot , Kiryat Gat , Beer Sheva and Ashdod , due to Grad rockets being smuggled into Gaza. In 2007, after several years of terrorist attacks, the Knesset passed the "Assistance to Sderot and the Western Negev (Temporary Provision) Law, 2007", which recognizes communities that are within 7 km away from the border fence surrounding the Gaza Strip (and additional communities in the area designated by the Minister of Finance 's order ) as "Confrontation-line Communities" and gives them special privileges (temporarily, until the end of 2008). Additional legislative measures extended the validity of some of the benefits, with certain changes, until the end of 2014.1
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Tank Merkava Mark IV patrols the Hubers Axis route The Gaza envelope ( , Otef Aza ) is a term used to describe the populated areas of Israel that are within 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of the Gaza border and are therefore within range of mortar shells and Qassam rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.It has also been used on occasion to mean the region that allows Israel to control sea, land and air access to the Gaza Strip .
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A Merkava Mark IV tank patrols the Gaza border (February 2012) The reach of the rockets from Gaza The Gaza envelope ( , Otef Aza ) is the populated areas of Israel that are within 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of the Gaza Strip border and are therefore within range of mortar shells and Qassam rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.The region is populated by 70,000 Israeli citizens according to the Israeli ministry of internal affairs.
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Areas of Israel within 7 km of the Gaza Strip The Gaza envelope is defined as the territory in Israel that is within 7 km of the Gaza Strip A Merkava Mark IV tank patrols the Gaza border (February 2012) The Gaza envelope ( Hebrew : עוטף עזה , otef aza ) encompasses the populated areas in the Southern District of Israel that are within 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of the Gaza Strip border and are therefore within range of mortar shells and Qassam rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.The Times of Israel .
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term used to describe the populated areas of israel that are within 7 kilometres
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defined as the territory in israel that is within 7 km of the gaza strip a merkava mark iv tank patrols the gaz
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