Chinmaya IAS Academy – Current Affairs Chinmaya IAS Academy – Current Affairs
- After three days of violence between Israel and Palestine, which resulted in killing of dozens of populations in both the countries, a ceasefire took place recently.
- Earlier this year as well, tensions flared up at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque between the Palestinians and Israeli police.
- These recurring clashes are part of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Recent Conflict
- Israeli aircraft pummelled targets (Islamic Jihad Leaders) in Gaza.
- In response, Iran-backed Palestinian Jihad militant group fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
- Islamic Jihad has fewer fighters and supporters than Hamas.
- Israel launched its operation with a strike on a leader of the Islamic Jihad, and followed up on with another targeted strike on a second prominent leader.
- As per the Israeli army, militants in Gaza fired about 580 rockets toward Israel.
- Israel had intercepted many of them, with two of those shot down being fired toward Jerusalem.
UNSC Meeting:
- The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting on the violence.
- China, which holds the council presidency for August 2022, scheduled the session in response to a request from the United Arab Emirates, which represents Arab nations on the council, as well as China, France, Ireland and Norway.
Conflict between Israel and Palestine
- Jerusalem has been at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- According to the original 1947 United Nations (UN) partition plan, Jerusalem was proposed to be an international city.
- However, in the first Arab Israel war of 1948, the Israelis captured the western half of the city, and Jordan took the eastern part, including the Old City that houses Haram al-Sharif.
- Following the Six-Day War in 1967, an armed conflict between Israel and a coalition of Arab states primarily comprising Jordan, Syria and Egypt, the Waqf Ministry of Jordan that had till then held control of the al-Aqsa Mosque, ceased to oversee the mosque.
- Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the Six-Day War 1967 and annexed it later.
- Since its annexation, Israel has expanded settlements in East Jerusalem.
- Israel sees the whole city as its “unified, eternal capital”, whereas the Palestinian leadership across the political spectrum have maintained that they would not accept any compromise formula for the future Palestinian state unless East Jerusalem is its capital.
SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT
