I keep losing track. Does Israel still own The Gaza Strip or did they turn it over to Palestinians?
One of the main problems for the Palestinians is that there is no land bridge between the two areas. That problem would have been solved in the late 90's with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators actively trading parcels of land on a map to make a land bridge possible. All of those efforts were destroyed when Yassar Arafat decided to derail the entire peace process by denying any and all claims regarding the importance of the Western Wall by Israel. There is no other explanation for this than Arafat knowing that he couldn't govern in a peaceful situation and his only choice was for hostilities to continue.
They keep trying to get the Palestinians to launch statehood in their existing territories and act like a real country but it doesn’t look like that will happen.