--- title: "What's the state of the Israel-Palestine conflict currently?" description: "What's the state of the Israel-Palestine conflict currently?" author: "Baishakhi Ghosh" published: 2023-09-22 updated: 2023-10-22 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100649/what-s-the-state-of-the-israel-palestine-conflict-currently category: "current affair" tags: ["current affair"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # What's the state of the Israel-Palestine conflict currently? ## Answers ### Answer by user In early [October](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2486/whatsapp-banned-over-23-million-indian-accounts-and-8-1-million-users-in-october) 2023, war broke out between [Israel](https://www.mindstick.com/news/3998/israel-s-based-chip-making-company-tie-ups-with-adani-group-for-a-10-billion-project-in-india) and Hamas, the militant Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2006. Hamas fighters fired rockets into Israel and stormed southern Israeli cities and towns across the border of the Gaza strip, killing and injuring hundreds of soldiers and civilians and taking dozens of hostages. The [attack](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300788/why-is-heart-attack-increasing-in-the-younger-generation) took Israel by surprise, though the state quickly mounted a deadly retaliatory operation. One day after the October 7 attack, the Israeli cabinet formally declared war against Hamas, followed by a directive from the [defense](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/225759/what-do-criminal-defense-lawyers-handle) minister to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to carry out a “complete siege” of Gaza. Since then, the two sides have traded daily rocket fire, and Israel ordered more than one million Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza to evacuate ahead of a possible ground assault. Meanwhile, Gaza is running out of [water](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/323154/fluoride-in-your-water-filtration-guide-2020), fuel, and supplies amid an Israeli aid blockade, and the conflict risks spreading as cross-border strikes escalate in Lebanon and Syria. \ The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. In 1947, the United Nations adopted [Resolution](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2526/resolution-against-anti-satellite-tests-adopted-by-un-to-reduce-space-debris) 181, known as the Partition Plan, 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 with Israel’s victory, but 750,000 Palestinians were displaced, and the territory was divided into 3 parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River), and the Gaza Strip. Over the following years, tensions rose in the region, particularly between Israel and [Egypt](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/198428/15-incredibly-useful-travel-tips-for-egypt), Jordan, and Syria. Following the 1956 Suez Crisis and Israel’s invasion of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria signed mutual defense pacts in anticipation of a possible mobilization of Israeli troops. In June 1967, following a [series](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2461/key-details-of-the-redmi-k60-series-have-leaked-ahead-of-launch) of maneuvers by Egyptian President Abdel Gamal Nasser, Israel preemptively attacked Egyptian and Syrian air forces, starting the Six-Day War. After the war, Israel gained territorial [control](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/137/asp-dot-net-ajax-control-toolkit-calendarextender) over the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan; and the Golan Heights from Syria. Six years later, in what is referred to as the Yom Kippur War or the October War, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise two-front attack on Israel to regain their lost territory; the conflict did not result in significant gains for Egypt, Israel, or Syria, but Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat declared the war a victory for Egypt as it allowed Egypt and Syria to negotiate over previously ceded territory. Finally, in 1979, following a series of cease-fires and peace negotiations, representatives from Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David Accords, a peace treaty that ended the thirty-year conflict between Egypt and Israel. \ Read detail [story](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/338793/building-visibility-through-smart-storytelling) here - https://mahaofficer.in/israel-at-war-with-hamas-and-hezbollah-all-explains/ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100649/what-s-the-state-of-the-israel-palestine-conflict-currently Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.