The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Honestly I did this research because I wanted to learn what is going on and what happened before between Israel and Palestine and even when the roots of the conflict and mistrust are deep and complex it is not hard to understand. The past seven decades those two different nations have witnessed war, uprisings and, at times, glimmers of hope for compromise.  

The conflict started when Britain took control of the area known as Palestine after the ruler of that part of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, was defeated in World War One. Tensions between the two peoples grew when the British gave the order to Jewish people to move to Palestine land. Violence between Jews and Arabs, and against British rule, also grew. For Jews it was their ancestral home, but Palestinian Arabs also claimed the land and opposed the move. 

In 1947, the UN voted for Palestine to be split into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem becoming an international city. That plan was accepted by Jewish leaders but rejected by the Arab side and never implemented.

In 1948, unable to solve the problem, British rulers left and Jewish leaders declared the creation of the state of Israel.

In another war in 1967, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as most of the Syrian Golan Heights, Gaza and the Egyptian Sinai peninsula.

Israel supported by US claims the whole of Jerusalem as its capital,  while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. 

what is happening now ?

• Tensions are often high between Israel and Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank.
• Gaza is ruled by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has fought Israel many times. Israel and Egypt tightly control Gaza's borders to stop weapons getting to Hamas.
• Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank say they are suffering because of Israeli actions and restrictions. Israel says it is only acting to protect itself from Palestinian violence.
• The threatened eviction of some Palestinian families in East Jerusalem has also caused rising anger.

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