Israel-Palestine: A timeline of the decades-long conflict as ceasefire reportedly reached with Hamas Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a ceasefire deal, which would put an end to the war in the Gaza Strip which started in October 2023.
As World War I begins, Palestinian Arabs make up around 80 per cent of the population, with Jews making up around 10 per cent.
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing over 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages.
Here is a timeline of the conflict, from World War I up to the October 7 attack, a little over one year ago.
Palestinians point to a series of letters from 1915 to 1916 between Mecca’s emir and the British high commissioner in Egypt, known as the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, as promising an independent Arab state after the war.
