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10 May – Palestine 194: The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and requests, and to reconsider its request to become a UN member. The US, Argentina, the Czech Republic and Hungary, along with four Pacific nations, align with Israel in voting against the ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nakba Day Significance Nakba Date 15 May Next time 15 May 2025 (2025-05-15) Frequency Annual Related to Yom Ha'atzmaut 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 ...
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
12 Palestine Red Crescent workers have now been killed in the line of duty. This includes three Palestine Red Crescent ambulance drivers killed on 10 February 2024. [196] The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 117 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 28,064. [197]
The preservation of place names "with amazing consistency" is noted by Yohanan Aharoni in The Land of the Bible (1979). [19] He attributes this continuity to the common Semitic background of Palestine's local inhabitants throughout the ages, and the fact that place names tended to reflect extant agricultural features at the site in question. [19]
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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli police officers in Lod, Israel, 11 May Date 6–21 May 2021 (2 weeks and 1 day) Location Israel, Palestine, Israel–Lebanon border, Golan Heights Caused by Planned decision by the Supreme Court of Israel on the ...