what is going on with israel and palestine

As of November 2023, Israel and Palestine are in a state of war. The conflict between Israel and Palestine has its roots in a colonial act carried out more than a century ago. In 1947, the United Nations adopted Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan, which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s victory, but 750,000 Palestinians were displaced, and the territory was divided into three parts. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it’s controlled. The internationally supported political solution to the broader conflict, endorsed in the past by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, is a so-called “two-state solution.” That would establish Palestine as an independent state in Gaza and most of the West Bank, leaving Israel in control of the rest of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In early October 2023, war broke out between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2006. Hamas fighters fired rockets into Israel and stormed southern Israeli towns, killing and injuring many people. Israel responded with widespread bombardment of the Gaza Strip and a ground incursion, killing and injuring tens of thousands of Palestinians. The conflict is ongoing.