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The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.
A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect passengers against rocks and grenades thrown by Arab insurgents. Jews evacuate the Old City of Jerusalem after Arab riots in 1936. British soldiers of the Coldstream Guards "cleansing" Jerusalem of Arabs participating in the revolt, 1938. Military law allowed swift prison sentences to be passed ...
5 Jewish Keren Kayemet workers killed near Har Haruach by an Arab ambush. Ma'ale HaHamisha was named in their honor. [16] N/A March 28, 1938 6 6 Jewish passengers killed by Arabs while traveling from Haifa to Safed. N/A August 16, 1938 3 A Jewish family was kidnapped by Arabs in Atlit. 3 killed. [17] [18] 1938 Tiberias pogrom: October 2, 1938 19
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
Of the 470,000 Jews in Palestine at the time, some 30,000 served in the British Army during the war. [13] There was a Jewish battalion attached to the British Army's 1st Battalion, Royal East Kent Regiment stationed in Palestine. With the decline of the Arab Revolt by September 1939, the tensions among Jews and Arabs eased as well.
Maps of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions. Part of a series on the History of Palestine Prehistory Natufian culture Pre-Pottery Tahunian Ghassulian Jericho Ancient history Canaan Phoenicia Egyptian Empire Ancient Israel and Judah (Israel, Judah) Philistia Philistines Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Achaemenid Empire Classical period Hellenistic Palestine (Seleucus ...
On May 14, 1948, at the end of the British Mandate, the Jewish People's Council gathered in Tel Aviv and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, [22] declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. [23] U.S. President Harry Truman recognised the State of Israel de facto the following day.
Tensions between the Zionist movements and the Arab residents of Palestine started to emerge after the 1880s, when immigration of European Jews to Palestine increased. This immigration increased the Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine by the acquisition of land from Ottoman and individual Arab landholders, known as effendis, and establishment of Jewish agricultural settlements ().