State · 2007 – present
Gaza Strip under Hamas
A state of 2007 – present — 19 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 19 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 5
- the Hamas Leader in the Gaza Strip
- Most ground
- 100 km²
- in 2014
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ismail Haniyeh | 2007 – 2017 | 10 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Yahya Sinwar | 2017 – 2024 | 7 years | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Mohammed Sinwar | 2025 – 2025 | under a year | killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | sibling |
| Az al-Din Haddad | 2025 – 2026 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Mohammed Odeh | 2026 – 2026 | under a year | ending not on record |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 2007 – 2026. Only 19 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 3 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.75, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
100 km² in 2017, 100 km² in 2022. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood19 years
stood longer than 22% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 0% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1997 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 2014, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q5588642 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.