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Palestinian militant and political organization
Countries, international organizations and legal bodies commonly call the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” because they are parts of the former British Man...
The slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is short, emotionally charged and historically mutable: for some Palestinians it expresses national liberation or a single-state ideal ac...
A Palestinian state has been recognised by the majority of U.N. member states and by a growing number of Western governments in 2025, but it exists in a contested, partial form on the ground and lacks...
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
The territory commonly called Palestine has been governed at different times by local kingdoms and a long succession of empires: ancient Israelite and Philistine polities, Assyrian and Babylonian conq...
The United Nations General Assembly granted Palestine “non‑member observer state” status in November 2012, but that is not the same as full UN membership; since 1988 many UN member states have individ...
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), dominated by Fatah, has historically received political, military and diplomatic support from Arab states (notably Syria and Egypt at different times), san...
As of September 2025, most UN member states have recognized the State of Palestine: sources report between about 148–157 recognitions before and after a wave of diplomacy around the 80th UN General As...
The United Nations first *formally* recognized the Palestinian people as a distinct national entity in , when the General Assembly adopted resolutions that affirmed Palestinian collective rights and g...
Executive summary The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is a century-long, multi-layered dispute rooted in competing nationalisms, colonial-era decisions, wars in 1948 and 1967, and ongoing disputes over t...
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...
The modern State of Israel was declared on 14 May 1948 at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, followed immediately by the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that left Israel in control of most mandate te...
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...
The 1967 Six-Day War was a decisive catalyst that accelerated the , but it did not create that identity from scratch; long‑standing local, social, and political processes predated 1967. Scholars and c...