History of the State of Palestine

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History of Palestine
Prehistory Natufian culture Pre-Pottery Tahunian Ghassulian Jericho
Ancient history Canaan Phoenicia Egyptian Empire Ancient Israel and Judah (Israel, Judah) Philistia Philistines Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Achaemenid Empire
Classical period Seleucus Antigonus Hasmonean dynasty Herodian kingdom Province of Judea Syria Palaestina Byzantine Empire (Palaestina Prima / Secunda)
Islamic rule Muslim conquest Rashidun (Jund Filastin, Jund al-Urdunn) Umayyad Abbasid Fatimid Crusader Ayyubid Mamluk Ottoman
Modern era Mandatory Palestine Nakba All-Palestine Jordanian West Bank Egyptian Gaza Strip Israel State of Israel Military Governorate Israeli Civil Administration State of Palestine (Palestinian enclaves; Palestinian Authority; West Bank; Gaza Strip)
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The history of the State of Palestine describes the creation and evolution of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During the Mandatory period, numerous plans of partition of Palestine were proposed but without the agreement of all parties. In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was voted for. The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted parts of the plan, while Arab leaders refused it. This triggered the 1947–1949 Palestine war and led, in 1948, to the establishment of the state of Israel on a part of Mandate Palestine as the Mandate came to an end.

The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian occupation, and the West Bank was ruled by Jordan, before both territories were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Since then there have been proposals to establish a Palestinian state. In 1969, for example, the PLO proposed the establishment of a binational state over the whole of the former British Mandate territory. This proposal was rejected by Israel, as it would have amounted to the disbanding of the state of Israel. The basis of the current proposals is for a two-state solution on either a portion of or the entirety of the Palestinian territories—the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which have been occupied by Israel since 1967.