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If Palestine does exist as a state, then Israel's occupation constitutes an armed attack against such a state. [ 50 ] Francis Boyle argues that the State of Palestine possesses the right to self-defense, like all other states, and this includes the right to use force to end Israel's illegal occupation.
Many scholars have argued that Palestinians have the right to resist under international law, including armed resistance. This right to resist is in a jus ad bellum sense only; the conduct of such resistance (jus in bello) must be in accordance with laws of war. This implies that attacks on Israeli military targets could be allowed but attacks ...
Initially rare, armed clashes between the PA's National Security Forces and local militant groups have significantly escalated during the ongoing Gaza war and its spillover into the West Bank. In December 2024, the largest and most violent fighting in the conflict erupted with a large-scale PA operation in Jenin .
The other prominent Palestinian militant organizations– the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Resistance Committees, and the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement– do not formally have any branches in the West Bank, but have still carried out some attacks in the region ...
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation was founded in Cairo in 1964, dedicated to fighting for the ”liberation of Palestine” through armed revolution rather than dwelling on rights issues, a ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to ...
Violence against the Jews in Palestine followed the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 which stimulated Jewish migrants to settle in Palestine. At this time the Arabs were both geographically and demographically dominant compared to the Jewish population, where the majority of Arabs were distributed throughout the highlands of Judea, Samaria and Galilee and the Jewish population was ...
The Palestinian Joint Operations Room (Arabic: غرفة العمليات المشتركة, romanized: Ghurfat al-ʿAmaliyyāt al-Mushtaraka), also known by its full name Joint Room for Palestinian Resistance Factions (Arabic: الغرفة المشتركة لفصائل المقاومة الفلسطينية, romanized: al-Ghurfa al-Mushtaraka li-Faṣāʾil al-Muqāwama al-Filasṭīniyya), is a ...