Arab Isralie conflict.

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Nate Cummings 10 A

GCSE History Modern World Study Coursework

In the last few years the newspapers and TV have been riddled with headlines of suicide bombers in Israel, and Israel attacking Palestinian homes. These stories have become an almost everyday occurance to us and a normal thing. But this is not a normal thing. This is an account of over the last few years and how both the Israelis and Palestinians have been terrorised by each other.

Since the 60’s the Palestinian people have had no home or their own state to live in. They have some towns in Israel but thousands are still in refugee camps. The Palestinians have become very angry with the manner that their people are in and have chosen some radical ways to express their feelings, trying to get the Israelis to get out of the little area that they are living in.

Both the Israeli and Palestinians claim the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in Israel and Palestinian suicide bombers are killing Israel civilians to try to get their point across.

September 2000

Palestinians began the ‘Intifade’, or uprising, against Israel: 759 Palestinians are killed (165 of them are under the age of 18), and 126 Israelis are killed (9 of them under the age of 18)

The Intifade:

Campaign of violent civil disobedience by the Palestinians in the Israel occupied territories of the West Bank of the river Jordan and the Gaza Strip. The Intifade began in 1987 and was an attempt to disrupt the heavy-handed policing tactics of Israelis.

The main participating groups were the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The Intifade claimed more than 1400 Palestinian and 230 Jewish lives and increased the pressure for a political settlement. When the Intifade demonstrates there might be accidental deaths of civilians caught in cross-fire. Children who are also in the Intifade will be shot by the Israeli troops.

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July 24th, 2002

A series of suicide bombings in mid- June led Israeli to announce “a change in the way [it] responds to murderous acts of terror”. Within days seven of eight Palestinian towns and cities were under occupation, and 700,000 people under curfew. Israel has meanwhile continued its policy of assassinating militant leaders, and an estimated 40 civilians are reported to have died on the West Bank.

So not only the Palestinians have had extreme ways of getting their point across, Israelis have as well.

There have been two refugee populations created by the Arab-Israeli ...

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