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In regards to your question, I believe the Gaza Campaign will be released as a stand alone campaign that serves the purpose of acting as a tutorial of all the new features that will be implemented in the main EBII game. I don't think it is known whether they will just release it when it is ready, or whether they will wait until a couple of months (maybe even a year) before EBII comes out so most people will be familiar with all the extra content and features which would most likely be completely alien to someone moving from vanilla RTW (or M2TW) to EBII.
Correct. The team has hinted that the Gaza campaign will be the first in a series of such stand-alone campaign working up to the release of EB2, so I doubt its release date will be influenced by the planned release date of the full mod.