Thousands of people took part in an annual march yesterday through the ruins of villages that Palestinians were expelled from during the 1948 war that led to Israel 's creation.
The descendants of the 160,000 Palestinians who managed to remain in what became Israel presently number about 1.4 million, around 20% of Israel's population. Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, proclaimed the modern state of Israel on 14 May 1948, a day before the scheduled end of British rule, establishing a safe haven for Jews fleeing persecution and seeking a national home on land to which they cite ties dating to antiquity.
A 1967 Israeli census put Gaza's population at 394,000, at least 60% of them Palestinian refugees and their descendants. In 2006, Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers in the border region and Israel launched military action, triggering a six-week war. Settlements: Most countries deem Jewish settlements built on land Israel occupied in 1967 to be illegal. Israel disputes this and cites historical and biblical ties to the land. Continued settlement expansion is among the most contentious issues between Israel, the Palestinians and the international community.
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