Israel - Gaza war updates: Is it genocide and elimination of Palestinians or state-sponsored terrorism in Israel? What is the permanent peace and resettlement plan? Try to find out here. (02 April 2025):
History of Palestine and Israel conflicts: November 1947: The UN General Assembly passes Resolution 181 calling for the partition of the Palestinian territories into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The resolution also envisions an international, UN-run body to administer Jerusalem. The Palestinian territories had been under the military and administrative control of the United Kingdom (known as a mandate) since 1917, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Jews celebrated the Partition Plan in Jerusalem on November 29, 1947. Civil strife and violence between the Jewish and Arab communities of the Palestinian territories intensified. The years 1948 to 1967: In 1948 the State of Israel was created on land inhabited by both Jews and Arab Palestinians. Hostilities between the two communities that year led to a mass displacement of Palestinians. Many of them became refugees in the Gaza Strip, a narrow swath of land roughly the size of Philadelphia that...