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Britain's announcement in February 1947 that they were going to end its Mandate government. The UN General brought together a scheduled special committee to make recommendations on the lands future government. UNSCOP said that maybe just make 2 separate states. On the 29 of November 1947 they did a vote the votes. We’re 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions. The Jewish accepted it. The Arabs rejected it and declared war.
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Armistice agreements leave Israel with more territory than they thought they would get through the Partition Plan. They also got western Jerusalem. They also got Jordan annexes West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. While Egypt occupies Gaza. This lasted from 1948 to 1949
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It begins with Israeli warplanes striking Egyptian airfields and Israeli ground forces entering the Sinai Peninsula. The war broke out among lingering conflicts, including Egypt’s block of shipping into the Gulf of Aqaba. Jordan joins the fighting with Egypt on Egypts side, but Israeli forces have the benefits after nearly wiping out Egypt’s air power. Israel takes control of the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and Arab East Jerusalem. Palestinians flee or are displaced. -
Praying to win back the land they had lost to Israel during the 3rd Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the biggest day. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to put the Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights. Israel counterattacked and recaptured the Golan Heights. A temporary no fighting went into effect on October 25,1973. -
A peace deal between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, known as the Camp David accords, is arranged on Sept. 17, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter. Possible Palestinian peace proposals were discussed, but was unaccomplished. -
The Oslo accord, are signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, setting out a peace process based on previous U.N. resolutions.The agreements created the Palestinian Authority, to oversee most controlling affairs in the West Bank and Gaza.The PLO is recognized by Israel and the United States as a settler.These are key issues such as Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the status of Jerusalem, and which is viewed by the Palestinians as the capital of any future state. -
The second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, begins after riots broke out following a visit by right-wing Israeli political figure Ariel Sharon and later the Prime Minister, to a compound in Jerusalem idolize in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Fights and other violence continue until 2005, leaving hundreds dead on both sides. -
Israel begins 3 weeks of attacks on Gaza after rocket barrages into Israel by Palestinian militants, who are supplied by tunnels from Egypt. More than 1,110 Palestinians were killed. At least13 Israelis were killed. -
Israel kills Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari, trigger more than a week of rocket fire from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes. At least 150 Palestinians. At least 6 Israelis are killed. -
Hamas militants kill 3 Israeli teenagers kidnapped near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, prompting an Israeli military response. Hamas answers with rocket attacks from Gaza. A seven-week problem leaves more than 2,200 Palestinians dead in Gaza. In Israel, 67 soldiers are killed. Then 6 civilians are killed. -
Protests take place in Gaza along the fence beside Israel, including demonstrators hurling rocks and gasoline bombs across the barrier. Israeli troops kill more than 170 protesters over several months. In November, Israel stages a secret attack into Gaza. At least 7 suspected Palestinian militants and a senior Israeli army officer are killed. From Gaza, hundreds of rockets are sent into Israel. -
After weeks of stress in Jerusalem that led to Israeli police raiding al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, Hamas fired rockets toward the city for the first time in years, causing Israel to return with airstrikes. The fighting, the fiercest since at least 2014, saw thousands of rockets fired from Gaza and hundred of airstrikes on the Palestinian territory. More than 200 people killed in Gaza. At least 10 people killed in Israel.