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The USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy signals‑intelligence ship, was attacked on June 8, 1967, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats; the assault killed 34...
The Gaza Strip’s governance since 1948 reflects two distinct transfers of control: Egypt administered Gaza after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and Israel seized the strip in the 1967 Six‑Day War, establi...
was attacked on June 8, 1967 while operating in international waters — an attack recorded in and multiple contemporary documents . What remains disputed is intent: Israeli inquiries and many official ...
The Out of Africa theory holds that anatomically modern Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and that the worldwide populations of modern humans descend primarily from one or more migrations of those Africa...
The USS Liberty incident occurred on June 8, 1967, when Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked the U.S. Navy technical research ship USS Liberty during the Six-Day War, killing 34 American sailor...
Archaeology and ancient Near Eastern chronology neither deliver a clear-cut confirmation nor an outright refutation of the biblical ; instead they have produced a contested constellation of data that ...
A U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry in June 1967 found that USS Liberty was in international waters, properly marked and in clear weather when attacked by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats, and produc...
Recent claims that archaeological inscriptions or finds prove Moses’ historicity are contested: independent researcher Michael S. Bar‑Ron and allies argue Proto‑Sinaitic inscriptions at Serabit el‑Kha...
Accusations that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza rest on claims of intent to forcibly transfer or permanently remove Palestinians, documented policy options and international findings al...
The USS Liberty was a United States Navy technical research (signals intelligence) ship operating in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Six-Day War, positioned to from Israeli and Arab forces—an ass...
When Palestinian land was seized during the , most Palestinians were expected—by circumstance, policy and contingency plans—to live as refugees in nearby Arab territory: and , refugee camps in , and ,...
Several Middle Eastern states that long hosted Palestinian refugees have experienced : saw the establish bases and launch cross‑border operations that provoked a state security crisis, ’s refugee camp...
Since 1948 the territory variously called has been claimed, annexed, occupied, administered or represented by multiple modern states and political administrations: chiefly , , and (through direct admi...
Human-rights organizations routinely accuse Egyptian authorities of using domestic surveillance, arrests and digital infiltration to target activists, journalists and young online organizers; Human Ri...
Egyptian military aircraft have figured in high-profile aviation incidents and investigations in the past: 33 Egyptian military officers were aboard EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off Nantucket in...
Egypt has visibly increased military forces in Sinai — including tanks and armored vehicles — and multiple Israeli voices and Israeli outlets say those deployments exceed limits of the 1979 Egypt‑Isra...
The Abraham Accords’ principal breakthrough was formal normalization between Israel and multiple Arab states—UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and later entrants—after a long pause since Egypt and Jordan , shift...
Archaeological and textual evidence for a mid‑15th century BCE (ca. 1446 BCE) Exodus is disputed: some scholars and popular defenders point to biblical chronology and selected site excavations (e.g., ...