Israel/Palestine timeline

  • Balfour Declaration

    Balfour Declaration
    Great britian said they would support the Jews(Zionists) in gaining an independent homeland in Palestine. People that already live in Palestine can stay and Great Britain gets money. This declaration made the Arabs ferious , Britain makes alot of mistakes with promises and Jews are happy. eventually israeli gets created.
  • UN Partition Plan 1947

    UN Partition Plan 1947
    The united nations approved a proposal to seperate palestine into seperate jewish and palestinian states for independence. in responding to intense rules from the Arab states , Britain didnt go through with the Partition.
  • Six Day War

    Six Day War
    Israel and Arab nations went into war against eachother from early june 5th to june 10th in 1967. The United Arab forces decided to edge with regards to weapomry and military equipment. Despite all of the many wounded refugees, the war eded june 10th and all peace supsided for now.
  • UN Resolution 242

    UN Resolution 242
    Land for Peace is an interpretation of the UN resolution which has been used for peace making . israeli had to withdrawl to formally make peace. now Israel is continuing to occupy the majority of palestinian territory.
  • Munich Olympic Games

    Munich Olympic Games
    Palestanian terrorists invaded the Olympic village where all the athletes stayed at during the games and killed two israeli athletes. Shortly after the PLO which was organized by Yassar Arafat came to scale a perimeter fence protecting thousands of athletes.
  • Camp David I

    Camp David I
    Israel and Egypt signed an agreement on September 17th, 1978. This led to a peace treaty between Israel and Arab Niebhors. Isreal prime minister and Anwar Sadat Egyptian President officially titled the "framework for peace in the middle east" this agreement became known as Camp David
  • Oslo Accords

    Oslo Accords
    Yitzhak Rabin and Yassar Arafat met for the first time in awhile following several months of secret negotiations in Norway. few people knew these two enemies were agreeing on eachothers rights and excepting a plan to establish a palestinian state within five years.
  • Al-Aqsa Intifada

    Al-Aqsa Intifada
    Intifada broke out between Palestine and israeli at the end of september. frusterations that year of the negotiation had failed to deliver a Palestinian state. ariel sharon the leader of Israelis opposition , paid a visit to the site in east jerusalem. Later frusteration boiled over into violence.
  • Gaza Withdrawal

    Gaza Withdrawal
    Israel would leave the gaza strip and would build a wall and fence to defend itself against suicide, bombers,and separate the palestinian territories from israel. The withdrawal went ahead and the newer Islamic - Inspired forces of Hamas. Hamas prevailed.
  • Gaza War

    Gaza War
    Israeli blockade gaza and that struck a strong conflict between Israeli and hamas. war struck and 18 Palestinians including 13 Millitants were killed in the middle of this Skimish.