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A 14-month-long conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel. The conflict escalated into a prolonged exchange of bombardments, leading to extensive displacement in Israel and Lebanon.
Israel's economy was 10 times larger than the West Bank's on the eve of the occupation but had experienced two years of recession. The West Bank's population stood between 585,500 and 803,600 and, while under Jordanian rule, accounted for 40% of Jordan's GNP, [31] with an annual growth rate of 6–8%. [32]
Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said that more than 3,720 tons of flour were delivered in 218 trucks to Gaza. [117] A car ramming attack in Fawwar, Hebron critically injured an Israeli soldier. The IDF said that it was investigating whether bullets fired against the attacker hit a civilian car, slightly injuring ...
The final findings of the inquest into the bombing: a copy is held by the State of Israel Archives, Jerusalem. Michael Quentin Morton, In the Heart of the Desert , Green Mountain Press, 2006, pp. 32–34 (photograph p. 44), for an eye-witness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing by a geologist working for the Iraq Petroleum Company .
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 ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, 19 October 2023. In the aftermath of the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, UK Prime Minister RIshi Sunak pledged the United Kingdom's support for Israel and declared that Israel "has an absolute right to defend itself". [52]
25 April – Members of Lehi kill seven British soldiers guarding a military car park in Tel Aviv. [1] 30 April – The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe into Palestine. It also recommended that Palestine remain a mandated territory, that facilities be put in place to ...
As a result, Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, Jews could visit the Old City of Jerusalem and pray at the Western Wall (the holiest site in Judaism) for the first time since the end of the British Mandate, to which they had been denied access by the Jordanians in contravention of the 1949 Armistice agreement. The four-meter-wide public alley ...