what is the cause of conflict between israel and palestine

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is rooted in a complex history of competing national and religious claims to the land. The current political conflict began in the early 20th century when Jews fleeing persecution in Europe sought to establish a national homeland in the Arab- and Muslim- majority territory of the Ottoman and later British Empire. The Arabs resisted, seeing the land as rightfully theirs. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan, which sought to divide the land into Arab and Jewish states, was never fully implemented and led to the first Arab-Israeli War. The conflict is also fueled by issues such as control of land, security, the status of Jerusalem, and the rights of Palestinian refugees. The Israeli- Palestinian conflict is one of the world's longest continuing conflicts, and various attempts have been made to resolve it as part of the Israeli- Palestinian peace process