Here is a brief history of the recent conflict:
In 1947, the United Nations adopted the Partition Plan, which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states (a two state solution).
In 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War.
The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s victory, but 750,000 Palestinians were displaced, and the territory was divided into 3 parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River), and the Gaza Strip.
In June 1967, following actions by Egyptian President Abdel Gamal Nasser, Israel preemptively attacked Egyptian and Syrian air forces, starting the Six-Day War.
After the war, Israel gained territorial control over the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan; and the Golan Heights from Syria.
Six years later was the Yom Kippur War or the October War, Egypt and Syria launched a siprise atyack against Isrsrl to regain land they had lost. This was unsuccessful.
In 1979, following a series of cease-fires and peace negotiations, representatives from Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David Accords that ended the thirty-year conflict between Egypt and Israel.
1987, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip rose up against the Israeli government in what is known as the first intifada.
The 1993 the Oslo I Accords set up a framework for the Palestinians to govern themselves in the West Bank and Gaza, and enabled mutual recognition between the newly established Palestinian Authority and Israel’s government.
In 1995, the Oslo II Accords expanded on the first agreement, adding provisions that mandated the complete withdrawal of Israel from 6 cities and 450 towns in the West Bank.
in September 2000, Palestinians launched lthe second intifada, which would last until 2005.
Hamas won the Palestinian Authority’s parliamentary elections in 2006, deposing longtime majority party Fatah. This gave Hamas, a political and militant movement inspired by the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, control of the Gaza Strip. In 2014 Fatah united with Hamas.
In 2014 Hamas fired nearly three thousand rockets at Israel, and Israel retaliated with a major offensive in Gaza.
In March of 2018, Israeli troops killes 183 Palestinians and wounded 6,000 others as they stormed the perimeter fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Afew months later, Hamas militants fired over one hundred rockets into Israel, and Israel responded with strikes on more than fifty targets in Gaza.
NOTE the REASON for the attacks have always been the idea thar Israel cannot be allowed to exist.
NOTE that each time Israel responded to aggression.
In 1947, the United Nations adopted the Partition Plan, which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states (a two state solution).
In 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War.
The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s victory, but 750,000 Palestinians were displaced, and the territory was divided into 3 parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River), and the Gaza Strip.
In June 1967, following actions by Egyptian President Abdel Gamal Nasser, Israel preemptively attacked Egyptian and Syrian air forces, starting the Six-Day War.
After the war, Israel gained territorial control over the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan; and the Golan Heights from Syria.
Six years later was the Yom Kippur War or the October War, Egypt and Syria launched a siprise atyack against Isrsrl to regain land they had lost. This was unsuccessful.
In 1979, following a series of cease-fires and peace negotiations, representatives from Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David Accords that ended the thirty-year conflict between Egypt and Israel.
1987, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip rose up against the Israeli government in what is known as the first intifada.
The 1993 the Oslo I Accords set up a framework for the Palestinians to govern themselves in the West Bank and Gaza, and enabled mutual recognition between the newly established Palestinian Authority and Israel’s government.
In 1995, the Oslo II Accords expanded on the first agreement, adding provisions that mandated the complete withdrawal of Israel from 6 cities and 450 towns in the West Bank.
in September 2000, Palestinians launched lthe second intifada, which would last until 2005.
Hamas won the Palestinian Authority’s parliamentary elections in 2006, deposing longtime majority party Fatah. This gave Hamas, a political and militant movement inspired by the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, control of the Gaza Strip. In 2014 Fatah united with Hamas.
In 2014 Hamas fired nearly three thousand rockets at Israel, and Israel retaliated with a major offensive in Gaza.
In March of 2018, Israeli troops killes 183 Palestinians and wounded 6,000 others as they stormed the perimeter fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Afew months later, Hamas militants fired over one hundred rockets into Israel, and Israel responded with strikes on more than fifty targets in Gaza.
NOTE the REASON for the attacks have always been the idea thar Israel cannot be allowed to exist.
NOTE that each time Israel responded to aggression.
