what is the reason for the war between israel and palestine

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict in the Levant that dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. The roots of the conflict can be traced to the birth of major nationalist movements among the Jews and among the Arabs, both geared towards attaining sovereignty for their people in the Middle East. The United Nations adopted Resolution 181 in 1947, which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, but neither the Palestinians nor the neighboring Arab countries accepted the founding of modern Israel. Fighting between Jewish armed groups and Palestinians escalated until the armies of Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, and Syria invaded after Israel declared independence in May 1948. The 1967 Six-Day War is particularly important for todays conflict, as it left Israel in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, two territories home to large Palestinian populations. Currently, Israel is at war with Hamas, a conflict following a horrific rampage on October 7, 2023, in which militants from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched attacks that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and took more than 240 hostage. 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," which would establish Palestine as an independent state in Gaza and most of the West Bank, leaving.