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Violence against the Jews in Palestine followed the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 which stimulated Jewish migrants to settle in Palestine. At this time the Arabs were both geographically and demographically dominant compared to the Jewish population, where the majority of Arabs were distributed throughout the highlands of Judea, Samaria and Galilee and the Jewish population was ...
Palestinian militants have targeted a number of military bases and civilian towns in Southern Israel. [42] Since 2001, Palestinian militants have launched thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, [43] killing, injuring and traumatizing Israeli civilians. [44] [45]
During the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979, the PLO sided with Vietnam and condemned China. [1] After the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, Vietnam recognized Palestine on 19 November 1988 and the Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat had visited Vietnam more than 10 times. [2] The last one was in August 2001.
In 2008 Palestinian hikaye was inscribed to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage; the first of four listings reflecting the significance of Palestinian culture globally. [126] [127] In November 2012, the status of Palestinian delegation in the United Nations was upgraded to non-member observer state as the State of Palestine. [128] [xxii]
Ynetnews said in August 2024 that "Since the war began, Wikipedia has become a battleground for information warfare, with significant power struggles between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli editors. According to Israeli editors, many entries are written from anti-Israel perspectives by editors using the platform to echo Palestinian messages." [28]
On 7 October 2023, a large escalation of the Gaza–Israel conflict began with a coordinated offensive by multiple Palestinian militant groups against Israel.A number of countries, including many of Israel's Western allies, such as the United States and a number of European countries, condemned the attacks by Hamas, expressed solidarity for Israel and stated that Israel has a right to defend ...
Palestinian national team player Mohammed Balah, killed On October 11, amid heavy Israeli bombardment of Gaza. By December 2023, at least 85 Palestinian athletes, 55 of them footballers, were killed in Israeli attacks, of whom 18 were children and 37 teenagers.
The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, romanized: Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. ' Operation Strong Cliff ' [note 3] [26] [27] [28]), and Battle of the Withered Grain (Arabic: معركة العصف المأكول, romanized: Maʿrakat al-ʿAṣf al-Maʾkūl [29] [30]), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the ...