After the war, Israel and other countries occupied several areas that were allotted to Palestine according to the UN. Moreover, more than 700,000 Palestinians had to leave their homes and become refugees in Arab countries. But Palestine wanted their own country, so in 1964, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded. Initially, their aim was to get their country through armed forces.
Then in 1967, the Second Arab-Israeli War took place, which was again won by Israel. This time, Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and a neighboring Egyptian peninsula. Until the 1980s, Israeli people had built their permanent shelters in the West Bank due to their nationalism, which was considered as criminal by Palestinians. In 1987, a group of Islamic fanatics in Palestine came together to form the HAMAS group. HAMAS group claimed that PLO’s secularism had caused Palestinians their livelihood. HAMAS core agenda was to eradicate Israel out of the maps.
In 1992, the new Prime Minister of Israel – Yitzhak Rabin, stated that PLO was not a terrorist organization; and decided to sign a peace deal with Palestine. As a result, in 1994, the Palestinian Government got established for the first time. But Palestine only received bits and pieces of Gaza Strip and West Bank from Israel as per their peace treaty. For this reason, the President of Palestinian Authority – Yasser Arafat, and Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
But unfortunately, after this, the whole situation went downhill. An extreme right-wing Jewish assassinated the PM of Israel Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 because of the compromise contract. And on the other side, HAMAS group carried out suicide bombings in Israel. These bombings intensified the 100-year old existing loathe between the two countries to the end.
From 2002 to 2007, there had been multiple violent protests that caused the demise of thousands of people in both countries. And that led to Palestine getting distributed in half; Gaza Strip came under the rule of HAMAS and the West Bank under PLO (Fatah). The latest bombings in Israel were executed by HAMAS group which acts as a terrorist group. And they are at war now.
