The UN General Assembly reiterates demands for a Palestinian state – NRK Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

In 1937, the first plan for a two-state solution saw the light of day in the then British mandate area of ​​Palestine.

* It was written by William Peel, head of a British commission to find a solution to the conflict between Jews and Arabs.

* Ten years and a world war later, the UN General Assembly in 1947 adopted a plan to create two states in the area. Jews were allocated 56 percent of the land, which the Muslim and Christian Palestinians opposed.

* The partition plan triggered an armed uprising in which local Palestinian militia eventually gained support from Arab countries.

* In April 1948, Jewish militia groups initiated what later became known as Plan D, in which over 400 Palestinian villages were razed and laid waste.

* A few weeks later, David Ben Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel in an area far larger than the UN partition plan had set out. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia went to war.

* The Israeli forces emerged victorious from the war and took control of 77 percent of the area.

* In the Six Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the remaining Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

* The Palestinian liberation movement, led by Fatah, took up the fight, but in reality had no chance.

* The UN Security Council has, in several resolutions, demanded Israeli withdrawal, but as a result of opposition from the USA, has never put power behind the demand.

* At the end of the 1980s, a popular uprising (intifada) broke out in the occupied territories. Then the USA got involved in the peace process and advocated for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state.

* A Palestinian state is not mentioned in the so-called Oslo agreements, which in the early 1990s ensured the Palestinians limited autonomy in certain parts of the occupied area.

* The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied territories has increased sevenfold since the first Oslo agreement was signed in 1993. Infrastructure linked to the settlements is occupying an increasingly large part of the Palestinian territories.

* The world community maintains that a negotiated two-state solution is the way to peace, but the negotiations in reality broke down around ten years ago.

_{Source: NTB}