Israeli - Palestine Conflict

Conflict over Palestine After WWI, Great Britain controlled Palestine. Palestine is located in the region the Jews called Judah and where they had for 2000 years

Conflict With the persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe centuries later, followed by the Holocaust during WWII, many Jews began to migrate back to this region.

Conflict Because Palestine was home to many Arabs, they did not want to see their homeland become a Jewish state. To settle the land dispute, the United Nations formed a plan to divide the region between Israel and Palestine. Israel accepted the plan, but Palestine did not. In 1948 Israel was declared an independent state. Land granted to Palestine was claimed by other Arab countries since they rejected the plan. This included the West Bank, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip.

From the time between 1947 and 1973, several wars broke out between Israel and Arab countries over the land. About 700,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees living in other Arab countries while other Palestinians worked to establish a Palestinian state. In the late 1980’s Palestinians began rebelling in the occupied areas of Gaza, Golan Heights and the West Bank. In 1993 Israel and the PLO-Palestine Liberation Organization signed an agreement. Palestine recognized Israel’s right to exist and Israel returned land to the Palestinians. But peace did not last. Conflict

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