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Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War, capturing it from Egypt along with the Sinai peninsula.In 1970, the first Israeli settlement was built. In 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel agreed to an outline for Palestinians to self-govern in the Palestinian territories.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on the Nakba Background Mandatory Palestine 1947 UN Partition Plan Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine Zionism Zionism as settler colonialism 1948 Nakba 1948 Palestine war 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine 1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948 Palestinian expulsion and ...
Palestinian place names and the name "Palestine" itself were removed from maps and books. [114] Sixty-nine Palestinians were killed in the 1953 Qibya massacre. [115] A few years later, 49 Palestinians were killed in the Kafr Qasim massacre, on the first day of the 1956 Suez Crisis. [116] Palestinians in Israel remained under strict martial law ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on the Nakba Background Mandatory Palestine 1947 UN Partition Plan Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine Zionism Zionism as settler colonialism 1948 Nakba 1948 Palestine war 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine 1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948 Palestinian expulsion and ...
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 ...
Immediately after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel began a process of nation-building; its first general elections were held on 25 January 1949. Chaim Weizmann was installed as Israel's first President, and David Ben-Gurion (head of the Mapai party ) attained the position of Prime minister of Israel that he had previously held in the provisional government.
[1] [2] The book also contains hundreds of photographs, several maps, and appendices. [2] The book also traces the Hebraization of Palestinian place names. [1] As Ann M. Lesch notes, "In the Jerusalem district alone, twenty per cent of the 38 destroyed villages now have Hebrew names: Kasla became Kesalon; Sar'a is Tzor'a; Saris is Shoresh; Suba ...