India-Palestine Relations: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 15 August 2022

India-Palestine Relations

◽The Palestinian Issue

🔸 Mandate of Palestine was to be partitioned into Jewish and Arab states under United Nations Resolution 181, approved in November 1947. Jerusalem is put under international control.

🔸 The state of Israel was finally created on May 14, 1948, provoking an eight-month war with Arab states.

🔸 The war resulted in the West Bank including east Jerusalem going to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Israel ended up occupying more territory than the resolution 181 had visualized.

🔸Thus, the First Arab-Israeli war resulted in statelessness for Palestinian people with many becoming refugees in the neighboring Arab states.

🔸 The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is created in 1964 with the aim of liberating the whole of historical Palestine.