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The documents, scholarship, institutional data and reporting cited throughout the Story. A source’s classification describes what it is, not whether every claim it contains is uncontested.

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Scholarly book

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction

Martin Bunton · Oxford University Press · Date not stated in supplied document

Cited in: A land with many names and communities, Two national movements take shape, Britain makes overlapping commitments, One country, two projects, The Holocaust makes refuge and statehood urgent, The UN proposes splitting the land, An uprising from inside the occupied territories, The conflict becomes far more lethal, Israel withdraws from inside Gaza, then Palestinian politics splits, Gaza is sealed off and war becomes cyclical, Why is there still no Palestinian state?

Sources & bibliography

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction

Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness

“Who were the Yahūd Evlād-ı ʿArab in Late Ottoman Palestine?”

Israel: A History

The Balfour Declaration

Mandate for Palestine

Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, 1917–1947

Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939

“1936–1939: Standing Aloof? Arab Christians and the Great Revolt”

Introduction to the Holocaust

General Assembly Resolution 181 (II)

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949

“The Debate about 1948”

General Assembly Resolution 194 (III)

Palestinians fear a repeat of their 1948 mass expulsion

Israel’s Border Wars, 1949–1956

“Problematizing a Palestinian Diaspora”

Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993

Resolution 242

The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Occupation and international humanitarian law

Resolution 2334

Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The Camp David Accords and Arab-Israeli Peace Process

“The Israeli Political Arena and Palestinian Contention: The Case of the ‘First’ Intifada”

Armed Struggle and the Search for State

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements

The Oslo Accords: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements

“Oslo: Three Decades Later”

Carter’s quest for Middle East peace did not end with Camp David

Advisory Opinion on the Wall

Final Report on the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council Elections

The Gaza Strip: The Humanitarian Impact of the Blockade

“Civilian versus combatant mortality ratios in Israel-Gaza conflicts, 2008–2023”

A year of fighting between Israel and Palestinians was already escalating before October 2023

UN envoy finds reasonable grounds to believe sexual violence occurred on 7 October

Mission report on conflict-related sexual violence

Situation in the State of Palestine

Reported Impact Snapshot: Gaza Strip, 9 September 2026

“Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict”

“Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip”

“Impact of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on children’s health”

South Africa v. Israel

Legal analysis under the Genocide Convention

Israel and Hamas agree to the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire

The final living hostages are released as the ceasefire begins

Palestinian death toll passes 73,000 as strikes continue despite the ceasefire

A damaged Gaza building collapses, killing 21

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