Gaza International Airport is located in the Gaza Strip, close to the Egyptian border.
The airport was formally inaugurated on the 24 November1998, after a year of construction. The opening was delayed almost a year before an agreement was signed regarding the airport.
Because of the violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities closed the airport in November of 2000, some two months after the start of violence.
Runway
Gaza International has one runway(3080m x 60m), which is, as of 2004, unusable.
The airport itself was opened in November 1998 at a ceremony attended by Bill Clinton.
For almost five years, the airport’s staff continued to turn up for work in the morning in spite of the fact that the airport was no longer operational.
Before they left the airport their bulldozer scraped the initials IDF in Hebrew into the tarmac at the front of the terminal building.
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