HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Six-Day War, Israeli Settlement, United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
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Assassination of the un mediator in september 1948. Israeli were now in control on 78% of palestine. Egypt took the gaza strip and jordan took the west bank. There were 770,000 palestinian refugees left the area. Closed all the borders to those who had ed. If you have jewish family you can move to israel and get citizenship. Other nations created it to show that they were pro-palestinian. The egyptian leader claimed he would free palestine though he could not. Israel arranged a surprise attack on egypt and syria. Occupation of the west bank, gaza strip, golan heights, sinai. The west bank and gaza strip were not of cially annexed. Half a million jews live there in jewish only settlements. Build jewish settlement literally on top of palestinian homes. People are now homeless even though they own land. Plo did not have control in the intifada. The killing of palestinian gave the israel a bad image.
