THE EGYPTIANS (C. 1468- 1200 BC)
History of Palestine
Considerable insight into the status of Palestine after Armageddon was gained through the discovery of the ' Amarna Tablets', a large collection of tablets found at El- Amarna in middle Egypt. These tablets are mostly letters from the royal archives of the pharaohs.
Many of them are written directly from or Palestine, in the period between 1450 and 1350 BC. Some similar documents have also been discovered in Palestine. In short, the tablets show that the Egyptians had left the Canaanite princely houses in control of their own territories, but under the supervision of Egyptian and Canaanite commissioners. Inspectors were appointed to estimate the yield of the harvest in Canaan and overseers collected the revenue. This tribute became the test of Canaanite loyalty to pharaoh.
But what really interested Egypt was the prosperous trade business of the Canaanite seaports of Gaza, Jaffa, Acca, Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Ugarite, who traded their goods far and wide. The Amarna tablets show that the Canaanites were mostly concentrated in the Coastal cities; the hinterland was but sparsely settled with concentrations around well-water centres as in Megiddo, Shechem, Jerusalem and Hebron. There are some seven letters written from the rulers of Jerusalem- then called Ursalim, or the City of Salam or Peace-beseeching help from pharaoh against marauding bedouin.
When Pharoah Seti I succeeded to the Egyptian throne in 1318 BC, many of the Canaanite city-states ere hostile to Egypt, and even engaged in warlike operations against towns which were still loyal to Egypt. Apparently, the Hitties were behind this uprising. The Hitties had built up a powerful army of charioteers in Asia Minor, and Palestine loomed as a gold coast.
The campaigns of Seti I into Palestine are recorded in a series of scenes carved on the east and north walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak; with reliefs showing action in the field, submission of defeated rulers, and prisoners-of-war being presented to Amun, the national god. Despite Seti's apparent successful military campaigns in Palestine, the Hitties continued pushing and inciting the Canaanite kings against the Egyptians. When Seti's son, Ramses II, succeeded to the throne, he decide on a showdown with the Hitties.
Heading four divisions, each named after an Egyptian god, Ramses crossed the Sinai into Palestine and then into Syria, where the clash of the two superpowers took place in an area called Kadesh. The Hitties unleashed some 3,500 chariots against the Egyptian army. Both sides were so badly beaten that when, on the next day, the Hittie king asked for an armistice, Ramses was only too gald to accept.
The battle of Kadesh undermined Egypt's prestige among the Canaanites and many of the Canaanite sities rebelled; compelling Ramses to return to Palestine to storm its cities. In order to secure Palestine, in 1280 BC Ramses signed with the Hitties history's first international peace treaty; in which Syria was recognized as part of the Hittie Empire, and Palestine part of Egypt's sphere of influence. And to improve relations with his former adversary, Ramses married the daughter of the Hittie king; adding her to his large circle of wives, who allegedly exceeded one hundred
Resource:
http://www.jerusalemites.org/history_of_palestine/16.htm
History of Palestine
Considerable insight into the status of Palestine after Armageddon was gained through the discovery of the ' Amarna Tablets', a large collection of tablets found at El- Amarna in middle Egypt. These tablets are mostly letters from the royal archives of the pharaohs.
Many of them are written directly from or Palestine, in the period between 1450 and 1350 BC. Some similar documents have also been discovered in Palestine. In short, the tablets show that the Egyptians had left the Canaanite princely houses in control of their own territories, but under the supervision of Egyptian and Canaanite commissioners. Inspectors were appointed to estimate the yield of the harvest in Canaan and overseers collected the revenue. This tribute became the test of Canaanite loyalty to pharaoh.
But what really interested Egypt was the prosperous trade business of the Canaanite seaports of Gaza, Jaffa, Acca, Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Ugarite, who traded their goods far and wide. The Amarna tablets show that the Canaanites were mostly concentrated in the Coastal cities; the hinterland was but sparsely settled with concentrations around well-water centres as in Megiddo, Shechem, Jerusalem and Hebron. There are some seven letters written from the rulers of Jerusalem- then called Ursalim, or the City of Salam or Peace-beseeching help from pharaoh against marauding bedouin.
When Pharoah Seti I succeeded to the Egyptian throne in 1318 BC, many of the Canaanite city-states ere hostile to Egypt, and even engaged in warlike operations against towns which were still loyal to Egypt. Apparently, the Hitties were behind this uprising. The Hitties had built up a powerful army of charioteers in Asia Minor, and Palestine loomed as a gold coast.
The campaigns of Seti I into Palestine are recorded in a series of scenes carved on the east and north walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak; with reliefs showing action in the field, submission of defeated rulers, and prisoners-of-war being presented to Amun, the national god. Despite Seti's apparent successful military campaigns in Palestine, the Hitties continued pushing and inciting the Canaanite kings against the Egyptians. When Seti's son, Ramses II, succeeded to the throne, he decide on a showdown with the Hitties.
Heading four divisions, each named after an Egyptian god, Ramses crossed the Sinai into Palestine and then into Syria, where the clash of the two superpowers took place in an area called Kadesh. The Hitties unleashed some 3,500 chariots against the Egyptian army. Both sides were so badly beaten that when, on the next day, the Hittie king asked for an armistice, Ramses was only too gald to accept.
The battle of Kadesh undermined Egypt's prestige among the Canaanites and many of the Canaanite sities rebelled; compelling Ramses to return to Palestine to storm its cities. In order to secure Palestine, in 1280 BC Ramses signed with the Hitties history's first international peace treaty; in which Syria was recognized as part of the Hittie Empire, and Palestine part of Egypt's sphere of influence. And to improve relations with his former adversary, Ramses married the daughter of the Hittie king; adding her to his large circle of wives, who allegedly exceeded one hundred
Resource:
http://www.jerusalemites.org/history_of_palestine/16.htm
Egyptian control (1948-1967)
According to the terms of the 1947 United Nations partition plan, the Gaza area was to become part of a new Arab state. Following the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine and 1947-1948 Civil War in Palestine, Israel declared its independence in May 1948. The Egyptian army invaded the area from the south, starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[4]
The Gaza Strip as it is known today was the product of the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements between Egypt and Israel, often referred to as the Green Line. Egypt occupied the Strip from 1949 (except for four months of Israeli occupation during the 1956 Suez Crisis) until 1967. The Strip's population was greatly augmented by an influx of Palestinian Arab refugees who fled from Israel during the fighting.
Towards the end of the war, the All-Palestine Government (Arabic: حكومة عموم فلسطين hukumat 'umum Filastin) was proclaimed in Gaza City on 22 September 1948 by the Arab League. It was conceived partly as an Arab League attempt to limit the influence of Transjordan over the Palestinian issue. The government was not recognized by Transjordan or any non-Arab country. It was little more than a façade under Egyptian control, had negligible influence or funding, and subsequently moved to Cairo. Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip or Egypt were issued All-Palestine passports until 1959, when Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt, annulled the All-Palestine government by decree.
Egypt never annexed the Gaza Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor.[6] The refugees were never offered Egyptian citizenship.
During the Sinai campaign of November 1956, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula were overrun by Israeli troops. International pressure soon forced Israel to withdraw.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip#Egyptian_control_.281948-1967.29
İt was either Misir 'Egypt' take over Gaza on that time,or İsrael does,and kick the Palestinians outSo Misir took control of Gaza to handle it over to her people which didnt have any army to defend them on that time.
More readings:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=106832&d=17&m=2&y=2008
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