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The conflict begins in 1947, when Great Britain decides to abandon Palestina, where there were already conflicts between local residents and those Jews who had been settling there in the hope of creating a "national home".
Britain leaves the problem in the hands of the ONU, who aproved a plan where the territory would be divided in two zones: one Israeli and one Palestinian. -
The Arab countries of the area were opposed to the birth of the new state and sent their troops sparking the first Arab-isrelí war, which lasted for over a year, causing a massive exodus of Palestinians.
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Led to first arab-israel war
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Egypt nationalized suez canal
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Israel preemptively attacked egypt after egypt mobilized its army.
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Yasser Arafat's group , Fatah, took control of the PLO(1969).
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Palestinian terrorist from "Black September" killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at munich.
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Egypt and Syria attacked israel on jewish holy day
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Peace treaty signed by israel and egypt
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Israel invaded Lebanon to destroy PLO bases
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palestinian uprising against israel occupation of West Bank Gaza.
First suicide attacks in israel.1,500 palestinians and 400 israelis died over 60 years. -
President Clinton Brokered peace agreement between israel and the PLO.
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Israel and the PLO agreed in the Cairo summit, implement the first phase of the Oslo Accords, which include the 60% military withdrawal from Gaza and Jericó.
July: Arafat returns to Gaza and take over as president of Palestina. -
Arafat and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, sign the Taba agreement which sets up the mechanism for a transitional period towards Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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Ariel Sharon, the leader of Israel's Likud party, visits al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, which is Islam's third holiest site. Arafat describes the visit as a dangerous affront to Islam's holy places. The second Intifada begins.
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January: Palestinians and Israelis meet in the Egyptian resort of Taba to negotiate an agreement on the U.S. peace proposal.
February: Sharon is elected prime minister and bury the negotiations by announcing that he will not respect the agreements of Taba. -
The Israeli army launches Operation Defensive Shield, the country's biggest military operation in the West Bank since the Six Day war. The siege of Yasser Arafat begins. Israel besieges Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, demolishing most of his office complex and confining him there, while simultaneously embarking on a policy of extra-judicial assassinations and imprisonment of Palestinian leaders
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Arafat dies in France. Israel denies his wishes to be buried in Jerusalem. Instead he is buried at his headquarters in Ramallah with soil brought from Jerusalem placed in his grave.
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Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections. The US, Israel and several European countries cut off aid to the Palestinians as the Islamist movement rejects Israel's right to exist.
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Egypt fosters talks among Palestinian factions aims at ending the rift between PLO and Hamas and forming a national unity government.
