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The Free Palestine Movement is officially led by Yasser Qashlaq, [2] while Saed Abd Al-Aal serves as the commander of the organization's paramilitary wing. [ 1 ] [ 15 ] Saed Abd Al-Aal is the son of Muhammad Abdel-Al, a member of the leadership of the Ba'ath Party's Palestinian branch in Syria and former Yarmouk Camp official. [ 5 ]
The Israeli Supreme Court has accepted Israel's position, that it has the right to prevent the free movement of people through Israel from the Gaza Strip for security reasons. According to Haaretz ' s Amira Hass , this policy defies one of the principles of the Oslo Accords, which states that Gaza and the West Bank constitute a single ...
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 ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
The Palestinian Authority supports the idea of a two-state solution; [11] Israel at times has also supported the idea, but nowadays rejects the creation of a Palestinian state. [12] Long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2015 rejected a Palestinian state. [ 13 ]
The different versions of the slogan that developed over the time emphasize different aspects of the Palestinian struggle. The version min an-nahr ʾilā l-baḥr / Filasṭīn sa-tataḥarrar (من النهر إلى البحر / فلسطين ستتحرر, "from the river to the sea / Palestine will be free") has a focus on liberation and freedom.
At the graduation ceremony of New York University Abu Dhabi this May, a student wearing the traditional Palestinian black-and-white keffiyeh scarf shouted “Free Palestine!” as he crossed the ...
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War, capturing it from Egypt along with the Sinai peninsula.In 1970, the first Israeli settlement was built. In 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel agreed to an outline for Palestinians to self-govern in the Palestinian territories.