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The Irgun's emblem included an image of most parts of the Land of Israel in the original borders of the British Mandate. The song "The East Bank of the Jordan" reflects the idea of the Jewish state existing on both sides of the Jordan River. In the first verse of the song, Jabotinsky compares the Jordan River to a spinal cord. The second verse ...
" Leve Palestina", which Totari wrote as a protest song in response to the limitations on openly criticizing Israel and the denial of Palestinian identity in the country at the time, [2] [4] [7] was released as the last song of the 1978 album Mitt hemlands jord / أرض بلادي [a] under the title "Demonstrationssången / تحيا ...
On 7 October 2023, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist political organization Hamas, initiated a sudden attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. As part of the attack, 364 individuals, mostly civilians , were killed and many more wounded at the Supernova Sukkot Gathering, an open-air music festival ...
Here is a closer look at the evolution of Israel’s borders over the years. Israel’s establishment. In 1947, the United Nations approved a plan to partition what was then British-controlled Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The contested city of Jerusalem was to be administered by the U.N. This plan, however, was never ...
Watch a live view of the Israel-Gaza border as fighting with Hamas continues on Sunday 22 October. Israel has vowed to step up its airstrikes on Gaza which have already killed nearly 4,500 ...
The Palestinian Authority claims all of these territories (including East Jerusalem) for a future Palestinian State, and its position is supported by the Arab League in the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative which calls for the return by Israel to "the 1967 borders". While Israel has expressed desire to annex the border settlement blocs and keep East ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
Watch live from the Israel-Palestine border on Monday, 13 November, as the World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza's main hospital "is not functioning as a hospital anymore". Hospitals ...