Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza has killed nearly 15,000 people, including 10,000 women and children, in over 50 days, making it the deadliest war for the besieged Palestinian enclave till date.

The political geography of Israel and the Palestinian territories has been changing for more than a century. British imperial control, wars, Jewish settlements and Israeli occupation have greatly ...

1956: Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal and bars Israeli ships from using it and the Straits of Tiran, another shipping route. Israel, aided by Britain and France, invades Egypt. The Soviet Union ...

The Real History of Israel and Palestine With Yair Netanyahu. Published Feb 16, 2024 at 12:25 PM EST ... made four historical peace treaties between Israel and four Arab-Muslim countries: ...

6. 1967 – Israel occupies Gaza and the West Bank. During the June 1967 War, Israel occupied all of historic Palestine and expelled a further 300,000 Palestinians from their homes.

Palestine and Jordan on Tuesday strongly condemned an Israeli map showing Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Lebanese lands as part of Israel. Official Israeli social media accounts published a ...

Israel still has overall control of the West Bank, but since the 1990s, a Palestinian government - known as the Palestinian Authority - has run most of its town and cities.

John Yang has perspectives on these historic events from Yohanan Plesner of the Israel Democracy Institute and Dr. Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative. Full Episode Sunday, Jun 15 ...

In a recent podcast interview, Sally Abed, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and member of Standing Together, an organization working for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, explained, “Our ...

The State of Palestine was strangled in its infancy, not by the Israelis, who accepted the U.N. partition plan, but by the neighboring Arab States - Egypt, Syria, and Jordan - who did not.

1964: The Palestine Liberation Organization, a group with the goal of uniting Arab groups and liberating the Palestinian territories through armed struggle, is formed in Egypt. 1967: The Six-Day ...