As a back-up, could you use transliterated names instead? Jordan is Al-ʾUrdunn, Syria is Sūriyā etc. That's often how they're shown on road atlas.

I popped into Gaza earlier this week; not that I've been there, but it seemed a bit too busy with transit traffic for me.

It's not been added in a game function form, no. The buildings have been there for a while.

It looks like there's no actual access to Gaza though, just a border crossing.

A lot of the exit checks were done via passenger lists. Difficult to know how it will actually work in practice because of Covid-19. Next year, the EU is introducing ETIAS, their equivalent to ESTA, which will change things somewhat further.

No, it has not been restricted. There were separate lanes at the ports and terminals for EU/EEA/Swiss nationals (the UK being in the EU free movement area until 31 December 2020) and another one for everyone else. The inspections in the former lane were quicker and did not involve the stamping of pa...

Will passport control function now be added at the Channel and Irish Sea ports?

They are more like internal security checkpoints, they try to stop citizens who go into the border zones and make sure their business is legitimate in order to stop human trafficking A relic of the Cold War era too; they used to be a lot more common along the former Iron Curtain to stop potential d...

You go through both sets of checks before boarding. They're already present at the Folkestone terminal, just not implemented in game.

Nope, don't know what he was doing there either.