After Israel’s refusal to withdraw its security forces from the mosque compound, Hamas launches a sustained rocket barrage ...

Despite the intensity of the violence, the Palestinian response was ... another prominent Israeli historian, in "1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War." Just as Palestinians were not ...

which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem were set to lose education, healthcare and other ...

Jewish leaders in Palestine declared an independent state ... Gaza's boundaries were drawn up as a result of the 1948 Middle East war, when it was occupied by Egypt. Egypt was driven out of ...

Videos of Palestinians flooding al-Rashid Street - which crosses the Netzarim corridor towards the north of the enclave - ...

During this period, Palestine was characterised by a Jewish ... Surrounding Arab nations intervened in the conflict. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israeli forces emerged victorious, capturing ...

Palestinian Arabs ... Morris, a defender of Israel, conceded in his book "1948: The First Arab-Israeli War," that "the Jews ...

Ralph Bunche received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself 'an incurable optimist'. Bunche was the first ...