The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a long-standing military and political conflict in the Levant that dates back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries
. The conflict is over who gets what land and how it's controlled. Jews fleeing persecution in Europe wanted to establish a national homeland in what was then an Arab- and Muslim-majority territory in the Ottoman and later British Empire. The Arabs resisted, seeing the land as rightfully theirs
. The United Nations' vote in 1947 to partition land in the British mandate of Palestine into two states - one Jewish, one Arab - following the destruction of much of European Jewry in the Holocaust, was a significant turning point in the conflict
. The current Israeli-Palestinian status quo began following the 1967 war, which left Israel in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, two territories home to large Palestinian populations
. The conflict has resulted in several wars and military confrontations, including the current Israel-Hamas war
. 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"
