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By the end of the 1948 war – called the War of Independence by Israel and the Naqba
("Disaster") by the Palestinians – Israel controlled 78% of the country, including half the
territory that had been allocated by the UN to the Palestinians. Some 750,000 Palestinians
living in what became Israel were made refugees or “internally displaced” people; only
100,000 remained in their homes.
More than 418 villages, two-thirds of the villages of
Palestine, were systematically destroyed by Israel after their residents had left or been
driven out. Of the Arab areas, now reduced to 22% of the country, the West Bank was
taken by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt.
The 1949 Armistice Line, today known as the
"Green Line," de facto demarcates the State of Israel until today. Since 1988, when the
Palestinians recognized Israel within that boundary, it has constituted the basis of the
two-state option, with the Palestinians claiming a state on all the lands conquered by
Israel in 1967: the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
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Datum: 23.07.06
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