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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.
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. [25] [26] [27] Key aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security, water rights, [28] the permit regime, Palestinian ...
Burqin, Palestine. Zibda. Ya'bad. Kufeirit. Umm al-Tut. Ash-Shuhada. Jalqamus. Al-Mughayyir, Jenin. Bir al-Basha. ... How war map templates work with other parts of ...
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation was founded in Cairo in 1964, dedicated to fighting for the ”liberation of Palestine” through armed revolution rather than dwelling on rights issues, a ...
Map of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war in Gaza and Southern Israel. On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militant groups, mainly Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with other groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, launched a major attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The attack included rocket barrages and vehicle ...
By the late sixties, about 500,000 Jews had left Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Over the course of twenty years, some 850,000 Jews from Arab countries (99%) relocated to Israel (680,000), France and the Americas. [57] [58] The land and property left behind by the Jews (much of it in Arab city centres) is still a matter of some dispute. Today ...
By 1931, 17 percent of the population of Mandatory Palestine were Jews, an increase of six percent since 1922. [26] Jewish immigration peaked soon after the Nazis came to power in Germany, causing the Jewish population in British Palestine to double. [27]
[56] [57] The future of Palestine was hotly disputed between Arabs and Jews. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan proposed a division of Mandate Palestine between an Arab and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem and the surrounding area to be a corpus separatum under a special international regime. The regions allotted to the proposed Arab state ...