Explaining the complex crisis in eight maps
Visit our dedicated hub for coverage of Israel and Hamas. HOW HAVE Israel’s borders changed over time? And why did Palestinian autonomous territories end up scattered in two separate regions? The shifting lines on the map help to explain more than a century of conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. Our explanation begins in 1916 .
In the Armistice of 1949 a demarcation line served as the de facto borders between Israel and Arab states, though the Arab governments refused to recognise Israel. More than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were pushed out of their homes. They called this the nakba, the catastrophe. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank came under the control of Egypt and Transjordan , respectively. Jerusalem was divided.
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