By Katie Paul and Barrett Sheridan
At its most distant point, the Gaza Strip is 25 miles long and seven miles wide. Its total area is only about twice the size of Washington, D.C. But, as the most recent eruption of violence there has made clear, its size belies its capacity to stir the fiercest emotions of billions of people around the world. Once again, the perennial question returns: why has so much blood been shed over such a small stretch of land? Here, focusing specifically on Gaza, NEWSWEEK constructs a chronology of the land's transformation from ancient city-state to present-day battle zone, to make some sense of its recent descent into the madness of yet another Israeli-Palestinian war.
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