A lasting end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, meanwhile, can only come through a two-state solution, the Secretary-General of the UN declared. Israelis must see their legitimate security needs materialized, and Palestinians must see their legitimate aspirations for a fully independent, viable and sovereign State realized. The overall fighting, leading to around 15,000 casualties, resulted in cease-fire and armistice agreements of 1949, with Israel holding much of the former Mandate territory, Jordan occupying and later annexing the West Bank and Egypt taking over the Gaza Strip, United Nations Resolution 181 resolution passed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1947 that called for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, with the city of Jerusalem as a corpus separatum (Latin: “separate entity”) to be governed by a special international regime.
I think it is important for every citizen to ask themselves how we all can help the Palestine war. Here are some ways your help, support and assistance are needed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international organization that provides lifesaving medical humanitarian care across the world, donate to MSF, donate to UNICEF, donate to the ICRC and Save the Children provides life-saving resources to affected children.
The Arab population in Palestine opposed the increase of the Jewish population because the new immigrants refused to lease or sell land to Palestinians or hire them. During the 1920s relations between the Jewish and Arab populations deteriorated and the hostility between the two groups intensified.
In 1917, to win Jewish support for Britain’s First World War effort, the British Balfour Declaration promised the establishment of a Jewish national home in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.
While the State of Israel was established on 15 May 1948 and admitted to the United Nations, a Palestinian State was not established. The remaining territories of pre-1948 Palestine, the West Bank – including East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, were administered from 1948 till 1967 by Jordan and Egypt, respectively.
After the war, Israel gained territorial control over the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan; and the Golan Heights from Syria.
Is Palestine a country or part of Israel you might say? This is the burning question that is in the hearts and minds of many since the Israeli-Palestinian war broke out. Palestine, is an area of the eastern Mediterranean region, comprising parts of modern Israel and the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip (along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and the West Bank (west of the Jordan River).
What is the peaceful resolution of Palestine?
The resolution reaffirms the global consensus calling for, among other things, Israel’s complete withdrawal from the Palestinian territory occupied since June 1967, including East Jerusalem; achievement of the two-state solution of an independent, sovereign, contiguous and viable State of Palestine.
THE PALESTINE QUESTION IN THE. UNITED NATIONS, 1948-1967. With the implementation of the Palestine Partition Resolution pre-empted, the United Nations was left with the responsibility for the Palestine question. In essence, the problem remained to establish an independent Arab State in Palestine. You might also ask yourself just how many UN laws has Israel broken?
Laws Violated: Israel has violated 28 resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (which are legally binding on member-nations U.N. Charter, Article 25 (1945); a few sample resolutions – 54, 111, 233, 234, 236, 248, 250, 252, 256, 262, 267, 270, 280, 285, 298, 313, 316
, 468, 476, etc.
You can help Palestine. As local and national responders, both have trusted relationships with their local communities and the unique ability to provide far-reaching humanitarian and medical services. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) is the leading provider of emergency medical services in Gaza and the West Bank.
Countries stand divided. The citizens of the world’s nations have chosen sides in this genocide. Some of the countries that have been supportive of Israel are as follows.
Those that voted in favour of Israel were Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, the Byelorussian SSR, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua and Norway.
Israel has killed many Palestinians.
Gaza’s health ministry said Thursday that the number of Palestinians killed in the war has surpassed 30,000. The official number now stands at 30,035.
The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its records but says around two-thirds of those killed were women and children.
As of 5 March 2024, over 31,000 people (30,228 Palestinian and 1,410 Israeli) have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 94 journalists (89 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) and over 136 UNRWA aid workers.
For your interest, the countries that support Palestine are as follows.
Among the G20, nine countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey) have recognized Palestine as a state (Indonesia and Saudi Arabia recognize Palestine but not Israel).
For your edification, Jerusalem is found in Israel.
Very soon after its conquest of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel merged East Jerusalem with West Jerusalem by administratively extending the municipal boundary of the city. In July 1980, the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law as part of the country’s Basic Law, which declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel.
The effects of the Israeli and Palestinian war will be long-lasting. We do not know what the psychological after-effects and aftermath will be on the soldiers, young men, young women, those left behind in refugee camps and especially the children on both sides of the equation.
The conflict could disrupt trade and global crude oil supply in the Middle East, affecting countries in the region and their trading partners. Over 20% of the world’s crude supply comes from West Asia, and conflict in the region may drastically push up the Crude oil prices up to USD 150 per barrel.
It is important to ask a few questions so that we might know the historical context and overview of Palestine. Who lived in Palestine first?
The lands were originally inhabited by nomadic hunter-gatherers who most likely immigrated from Mesopotamia but became sedentary agriculturalists by the Early Bronze Age (c. 3300-c. 2000 BCE).
What was Palestine before it was Palestine?
Before 1948 it was the British Mandate of Palestine, which included Jordan. Before 1922 it was the Vilayet of Beirut and the Sanjak (mutasarrifate) of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire, before 1299 it was a mess of caliphates and sultanates from 629 when the Muslim Arabs conquered the region.
Was Palestine ever its own country?
In 1988, King Hussein dissolved the Jordanian parliament and renounced Jordanian claims to the West Bank. The PLO assumed responsibility as the Provisional Government of Palestine and an independent state was declared.
What was Palestine called in the Bible?
The name was familiar to their ancient neighbours, occurring in Egyptian as Purusati, in Assyrian as Palastu, and in the Hebrew Bible as Peleshet (Exodus 14:14; Isaiah 14:29, 31; Joel 3:4). In the English authorized version, Peleshet is rendered Palestina or, in Joel only, Palestine.
Who lived in Israel first?
The oldest fossils of anatomically modern humans found outside Africa are the Skhul and Qafzeh hominids, who lived in northern Israel 120,000 years ago. Around the 10th millennium BCE, Natufian culture existed in the area.
Let us all pray that Israel and Hamas will indeed sit across from each other at the negotiating table shortly. Let all who died, the martyrs, the freedom fighters, let their deaths not be in vain. As we look to the future, let us remember as humanity, as the human race, and as individuals not to forget but to have a forgiving nature. In the face of genocide, the atrocities committed by both sides in the name of war, in the design of the insurmountable challenges and difficulties that the soldier and the freedom fighter face in war let us remember the words of the late and great President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. It always seems impossible until it is done.
Yes, it does. This Ramadan, let peace reign from the river to the sea again. Let the children’s laughter remind us of who we used to be.
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