The role of the Gaza community in making the Palestinian ethos Osama M. Abu Nahel.

Abstract EN

The Gaza strip is located in a narrow Palestinian coastal strip in the southeastern part of the Mediterranean.

its residents enjoy simplicity, preserving its religious and social values, tribal and family ties, and cooperation among its demographic components in most cases.

when we search for this strip in the geographic atlas, we find it, for example, that it is slightly smaller than the size of the city of Algeria.

nevertheless, the Gaza community is wondrous and unique, which offered martyrs of all kinds, including children, women, the elderly, and the physically challenged.

geography also played a harsh role in the fate of this society, which did not enjoy any kind of stable social and economic life.

rather, this community continued to suffer from the cruel geography of the location of the Gaza strip, which lies between Israel and Egypt, which control its land ports.

however, this cruelty was not always evil.

rather, over time, it created from its society a wonderful ethos and was able to cultivate it as a distinct personality on all levels despite the scarcity of resources and the widespread poverty.

this study examined the role of the Gaza community in making the Palestinian ethos (الروح الفلسطينية), and drew attention and focused on the role of this society in its contribution to Palestinian civilization, through creativity in various achievements, whether in resisting occupation and military industrialization, or in the field of economic, academic, literary and medical thought, or the cultural field.