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Apr 5, 2024 · Getty Images. The soldiers of allied Arab Legion forces fire on fighters of the Haganah, the Jewish Agency self-defence force, in March 1948. How and why was Israel created? In 1948, unable...
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The Gaza War [114] started when Israel launched a large military campaign in the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008, codenamed Operation "Cast Lead" (Hebrew: מבצע עופרת יצוקה), [115] with the stated aim of stopping Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.
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Before Israel became a nation, the majority of people dwelling in the region were Arabs who lived in what was then known as Palestine. On May 14, 1948, Israel was officially declared a state, marking the first Jewish state in over 2,000 years. Just one day later, war broke out between Israel and five Arab countries—Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Le...
In the aftermath of the war, scholars estimate that more than 700,000 Palestinians left or were forced to flee their homes in the newly formed Jewish Israel. Thousands of Palestinian refugees settled in the Gaza Strip. Many were essentially trapped between two countries—Egypt and Israel—that wouldn’t grant them easy passage. As of 2018, most of the...
Egypt controlled Gaza until the Six-Day Warin 1967, when Israel seized the strip, along with several other important areas of land. The 1993 and 1995 Oslo Peace Accordsbetween Palestinian and Israeli leaders negotiated for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and other key areas, which happened in 2005 under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
An Islamist political group called Hamas won elections and took control of Gaza in 2006. Since then, Hamas has occupied the strip, which has become a site for protests, bombings, land assaults and other acts of violence. Israel and the United States, as well as several other countries, consider Hamas a terrorist organization. Palestinians in Gaza d...
In spring of 2018, tensions erupted when the U.S. Embassy relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Perceiving this as signal of American support for Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinians responded with a planned protest called the “Great March of Return” at the Gaza-Israel border. As some protestors turned violent, they were met with Israeli for...
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Jan 13, 2024 · A day after Israel was created in 1948, troops from five Arab states attacked. In the war that followed, some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes, ending up in Jordan ...
Oct 28, 2023 · In this hot conflict, history matters. Al Jazeera has been tackling the big questions about this asymmetrical war, to help you make sense of it. Take a look at 10 must-read explainers: What’s the...
Nov 17, 2021 · The conflict erupted on May 10, when weeks of simmering tensions in Jerusalem among Palestinian protesters, the police and right-wing Israelis escalated, against the backdrop of a...
Oct 7, 2023 · In June 1967, during the Six-Day War, Israel gained control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled those territories or were displaced.
