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Click on the links below to see maps tracing the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Introduction
Pre-1947:
British control
1947-1949:
Israel founded
1967:
Six-Day War
Jerusalem:
Before 1967 & now
West Bank:
Autonomy & population
West Bank:
Settlements & checkpoints
Gaza:
Population and security
British control: Sykes-Picot
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret understanding concluded in 1916 between Great Britain and France, with the assent of Russia, for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement was not implemented, but it established the principles for the division a few years later of the Turkish-held region into the French and British-administered areas of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.
British control: Mandate Palestine
Palestine - comprising what are now Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jordan - was among several former Ottoman Arab territories placed under the administration of Great Britain by the League of Nations. The mandate lasted from 1920 to 1948. In 1923 Britain granted limited autonomy to Transjordan, now known as Jordan.

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