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The Arab–Israeli conflict is the phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between various Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century. The roots of the Arab–Israeli conflict have been attributed to the support by Arab League member countries for the Palestinians, a fellow League ...
[d]. ^ Middle Eastern theatre of World War II (combined casualty figure 12,338–14,898+) of: Anglo-Iraqi War – at least 560 killed. Farhud 175–780 killed. Syria–Lebanon Campaign 10,404–12,964 killed. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 100 – 1,062 killed. Bombing of Palestine in World War II 137 deaths.
Before World War II. After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, in April 1920 the Allied Supreme Council meeting at San Remo granted to Britain the mandates for Palestine and Transjordan (the territories that include the area of present-day Israel, Jordan, West Bank and the Gaza Strip), endorsing the terms of the Balfour Declaration.
More Palestinians fled in the years after 1948, including during the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza. Some fled for a second time.
What are the lessons to be learned, so far, from a Middle East war like no other? It is the first war, since Israel’s creation in 1948, that the Jewish state is fighting on six fronts.
The risk of wider war in the Middle East looms over Biden’s reelection effort. Six months into Israel’s war with Hamas, President Joe Biden is becoming ever more entangled in a foreign crisis ...
At least 34,789+ [16] Palestinians and 1,511 Israelis killed in the Israel–Hamas war with a further 1,900,000 Palestinians displaced within Gaza [17] and 500,000 Israelis displaced. [18] The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former ...
The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iran–Israel proxy war [25] or Iran–Israel Cold War, [26] is an ongoing proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such ...