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1947 BCE
UN plan to partition Palestine
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. The plan, which organized Palestine into three Jewish sections, four Arab Sections and internationally- administered city of Jerusalem, had strong support in western nations as well as the Soviet Union. -
Israel declares independence
The Jews, on the other hand, hoped to gain control over the territory allotted to them under the Partition Plan. After Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, the fighting intensified with other Arab forces joining the Palestinian Arabs in attacking territory in the former Palestinian mandate. -
Arab/Israeli War
The ongoing civil war was transformed into an interstate conflict between Israel and the Arab states, after the Declaration of Independence of Israel the previous day. Jordan privately declared to the emissaries of Yishuv on May 2 that it would comply with the decision not to attack the Jewish state. The invading forces took control of the Arab areas and immediately attacked the Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements. -
Suez Crisis
Was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized the canal.[19] After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The episode humiliated Great Britain and France and strengthened Nasser. -
Formation of PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964 for the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence directed against Israeli civilians. He is recognized as the "only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by more than 100 states with whom he maintains diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed observer status in the United Nations since 1974. -
Six-Day War
Israel reiterated its post-1956 position that the closure of the straits of Tiran to its shipping would be a casus belli. In May Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that the straits would be closed to Israeli vessels and then mobilised its Egyptian forces along its border with Israel. On 5 June Israel launched what it claimed were a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields. -
Yom Kippur War
The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied territories on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which also occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights respectively. -
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords created a Palestinian Authority related to the borders of Israel and Palestine, the Israeli settlements, the state of Jerusalem, the military presence of Israel and the control of the remaining territories after Israel's recognition of Palestinian autonomy and the Palestinian right of return. -
Lebanon war
The conflict was precipitated by the cross-border incursion of Hezbollah in 2006. On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah fighters fired rockets at Israeli border cities as a distraction for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border. the border fence.
