While Israel intensifies his strikes on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Nentanyahu announced this Monday, May 19, wanting to take control of the whole territory “and” not wanting to yield “. Here are five striking dates to return to the bogging up of relations between these two territories.
March 1949, the Gaza Strip is emerging
Following the proclamation of the State of Israel on the ancient Palestinian territories in May 1948, the Arab states entered war with the new Hebrew state, a series of events today recognized as The First Israeli Arab war. It was following this first conflict that the Gaza Strip was born: a territory of 365km2 where more than 170,000 Palestinians had forced to flee. This exodus plays a major role in the Arab world, and is designated by the word ” Nakba“, Meaning” disaster “or” disaster “in Arabic. Gaza is then under Egyptian control, and Israel renounces attacking the band.
The turning point in June 1967, the 6 -day war
This short lightning war still continues to draw the contours of relations between Gaza and Israel. In June, Israel launched a violent offensive against Syria and Egypt, allowing it to take control of strategic territories as The Sinai, the Golan Plateau and in particular the Gaza Strip. The Israeli victory is rapid and final, quickly leading to Khartoum negotiations. There Resolution 242 of these agreements indicated to the Hebrew state to withdraw from all “Occupied territories”a formulation still today denounced for its lack of clarity, not respected by Israel. There 6 -day war thus marks the beginning of Israeli domination over the Gaza Strip, which the State administers and colonizes. According to a report by ORTF dating from 1972, “300 00 Arabic then occupied the territory”, against more than 2 million today.
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The intifada of 1987 and 2000, the symbols of the Palestinian resistance
Designating a popular uprising, the Arabic word ” intifada »Refers today to Palestinian revolts from the 80s to 2000. The first, the intifada of the stones, began on December 8, 1987, when an Israeli truck kills four Palestinians in a Gaza camp in its path. This episode triggers a multitude of revolts within the occupied camps, where the Palestinians fight by stone throws. It is in this context of popular struggle that Hamas is bornin 1987. This first intifada ended during the Oslo agreementsby mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (OLP), led by Yasser Arafat. Only, this attempted peace remains a marked failure in 1995 by The assassination of Yitzhak Rabinthen Prime Minister in Israel, by an Israeli extremist.
In 2000 exploded a second intifada, The intifada of Al-Aqsatriggered by the arrival of Ariel Sharon, Israeli politician, on the esplanade of the mosques in Jerusalem. This second uprising causes around 4,700 dead and pushes Yasser Arafat to take refuge in France, where he died in 2004. The same year, Ariel Sharon, then Prime Minister announced The withdrawal of Gaza troopswhich ends revolts in 2005.
2007, a year prefiguring the intensification of violence
2007 is a hinge. She marks in particularhe takes control of Gaza by Hamaswhich overturns during an offensive Le Fatah, a political party at the head of the PLO, who then headed the region. This radicalization of the Gazaoui side definitively ends any perspective of dialogue, and motivates Israel to set up Gaza’s blockadea land and sea seat drastically restricting access to imports causing a large humanitarian crisis. The blockade was released in 2010, due to the pressure of the international community.
October 7, 2023, the massacre and its consequences
On this date, Hamas launches An unprecedented attack on Israelwhose results are estimated today at around 1,200 dead and 7,500 injured, including a majority of civilians. October 7 announced the start, or the continuity of a merciless war between the Gaza Strip and the State of Israel. The results of the war amounted in April to around 52,000 dead in Gaza according to Statista and Unicef. Even if a ceasefire had been agreed in January 2025, the recent statements by Benjamin Netanyahu as well as the intensification of offensives on Gaza dissipate the hopes of peace, while Donald Trump announce “Concepts for Gaza”.
