Palestine consists of the West Bank
(West of river Jordan) bordering Jordan on the East and Israel in the West and
the Gaza Strip which is a small narrow strip
of territory located bordering the East Mediterranean sea. It borders Egypt on
the South and West, and Israel on the East. It has a population of about 20
lacs.
The Gaza and the West Bank (west of
river Jordan) are claimed by Palestine. They are separated by Israel in
between. The West Bank is in Israeli control when it was wrested from Jordan in
the 1967 6 day war. The Gaza is controlled by Hamas which is a fundamentalist
Islamic organization since 2007 when it won the elections in 2006.
When Hamas (Harakat al-Muqawama al
Islamiyya) won a majority in the 2006 Palestinian election, the Fatah of the
PLO which opposed them refused to co operate, and a civil war broke out between
Hamas and Fatah in Gaza, in which Hamas prevailed and expelled Fatah from the
Gaza.
The PLO instituted another government
in West Bank while Hamas controlled the Gaza. While the PLO is more egalitarian,
the Hamas wants an Islamic government. The Hamas wants to expel the Jews from
Israel and unite the Gaza and West Bank to it and form an Islamic Republic.
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