History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, issued by the British government, endorsed the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which led to an influx of Jewish immigrants to the region. Following World War II and the Holocaust, international pressure mounted for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, leading to the creation of Israel in 1948. The establishment of Israel, and the war that followed and preceded it, led to a major demographic change in the form of displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, sparking a decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. In the 1967 war, Israel expanded its borders to include, among others, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, territories that in 1948 absorbed a...
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