Israel and Palestine conflict: 70-year-old map at heart of crisis
14 May, 2021 11:38 PM
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Israel and Hamas tensions flare as rocket attacks are launched on the Gaza Strip. Video / AP
Israel and Hamas tensions flare as rocket attacks are launched on the Gaza Strip. Video / AP
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By: Benedict Brook
The violence and death currently playing out across Palestine and Israel was ignited by a dispute in Jerusalem where Jewish settlers have laid claim to land inhabited by Arabs.
But the spark was lit more than 70 years ago, and in reality even further back than that.
And after all this time, the issue remains essentially the same: Who has the right to live where in the relatively small but densely populated Holy Land where faiths have intersected for millennia?
"It will take more time, but with great firmness . we will achieve our goal — to restore peace to the State of Israel," Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to batteries
Arab-Jewish coexistence in Israel suddenly ruptured.
A burnt vehicle is seen after violent confrontations between Israeli Arab demonstrators and police in Lod, Israel, on Wednesday.Credit.Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
May 13, 2021, 12:45 p.m. ET
LOD, Israel The hulks of burned out cars and trucks litter the streets of the mixed Arab-Jewish town of Lod, the epicenter of three nights of violence inside Israeli cities that have fed fears the country could be careening toward a civil war.
When the violence spread on Monday from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to Gaza, an uneasy coexistence in Lod, deep inside central Israel, abruptly ruptured.