Conflict and bloodshed: A brief history of Gaza's 75 years of woe

The Palestinian enclave has suffered repeatedly in the cycle of conflict, attack and retaliation between Israel and Palestinian militant groups

A Palestinian man carries the body of a child killed in overnight Israeli shelling during a funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Picture: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images

Gaza is a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore. Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in enclave inhabited by more than two million Palestinians.

Here are some of the major milestones in its recent history.