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Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel's devastating bombardments are causing Gaza to reel. Its severity has increased with the "Al-Aqsa Flood," even though she was not spared from the ongoing attack on it for years.

 

Israel-Palestine conflict

Israel-Palestine conflict

It is the deadliest war for the besieged Palestinian enclave to date, with nearly 15,000 people killed in over 50 days by Israel's deadly bombardment of Gaza, including 10,000 women and children.

As a four-day humanitarian truce ends on November 28, Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire. It's unclear if the ceasefire will last longer.

The destruction of Gaza and the growing death toll has sparked protests around the world, propelling the long-standing problem to the forefront of international politics.

 

The Balfour Proclamation

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back almost a century to the Balfour Declaration, which was signed by Britain during World War I and promised to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. By late October 1917, British forces had wrested control of the region from the Ottoman Empire.

 

Jewish migration to Palestine

Jews started migrating in large numbers to Palestine as a result of the Nazi movement in Europe. The percentage of Jews living in Palestine rose from 6% to 33% between 1918 and 1947.

Tensions increased as a result of the demographic shift, which alarmed Palestinians and sparked the 1936–1939 Palestinian uprising.

Zionist groups persisted in their calls for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the interim. The Palestinian people were forced to escape when armed Zionist militias began to attack them. Zionism was a political movement that advocated for the establishment of a Jewish homeland and first appeared in the late 1800s.

 

The Plan for UN Partition

The issue was brought up before the recently established United Nations while violence-ravaged Palestine. Resolution 181, passed by the UN in 1947, called for the division of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, giving the Jews ownership of roughly 55% of the territory. Jerusalem was designated as an independent internationalized territory, and Arabs were given forty-five percent of the land.

At the moment, the city is split into two sections: the mostly Jewish West Jerusalem and the mostly Palestinian East Jerusalem. Following the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel took control of both East Jerusalem and the West Bank; however, the international community did not acknowledge this development.

For Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem is sacred. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, also referred to as Temple Mount by Jews and al-Haram al-Sharif by Muslims, is located there. It was named a World Heritage Site by the UN in 1981.

 

The Nakba

Zionist militias ethnically cleared more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in the years before Israel was founded in 1948. The Nakba, or catastrophe, is the name given to this mass migration.

The 1967 Six-Day War resulted in the displacement of an additional 300,000 Palestinians.

Although Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1980, the region is still regarded as occupied by the international community. The capital of the future state that the Palestinians envision is East Jerusalem.

 

The Accords of Oslo

The Oslo Accords, signed in 1993 to bring about peace in five years, were a deal between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The two sides had never recognized one another before.

Areas A, B, and C were the divisions made into the occupied West Bank by a second agreement in 1995. Following the Oslo Accords, Israel effectively retained control over the West Bank, offering the newly established Palestinian Authority only restricted rule over eighteen percent of the territory.

 

Israeli checkpoints and settlements

But as Jewish communities known as Israeli settlements grew quickly on Palestinian land in the West Bank, the Oslo Accords gradually came apart.

Around 250,000 people lived in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1993; by September of this year, that number had risen to 700,000. In East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, there are about three million Palestinians.

The construction of a separation wall and Israeli settlements on occupied territory has divided Palestinian communities and limited their freedom of movement. The West Bank is dotted with about 700 roadblocks, including 140 checkpoints. On their daily commute, about 70,000 Palestinians with Israeli work permits pass through these checkpoints.

International law regards settlements as illegal. As part of the alleged "two-state solution," the UN has denounced settlements and described them as a major obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state that can function.

 

Gaza is being blocked

After Hamas took power in 2007, Israel established a blockade on Gaza. Even now, the siege is ongoing. The West Bank and East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians desire to be a part of their future state, are likewise under Israeli occupation.

In response to a surprise attack by Hamas inside Israel on October 9, Israel imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip, severing its supplies of fuel, food, water, and electricity. In that attack, at least 1,200 people lost their lives.

Palestine and Israel at this time

1.6 million Palestinians are citizens of Israel, and approximately 5 million Palestinians reside in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem of today. Its population is roughly divided in half by this. One-half of the population resides abroad, particularly in Arab nations. In the world today, there are approximately 14.7 million Jews, with 84 percent residing in Israel and the US. Argentina, Canada, France, Russia, and other nations are home to the remaining people.