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SMK ALAM MEGAH 2

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Nor Anis Farhana bt Nor Azmi
Maizura Syaffiya bt Abd Manaf

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION PALESTINIAN

01 Palestine’s history and 02 OPPRESSION
roots – reason of this What’s happening-
issues how’s people life there

MORAL VALUES IDIOMS/POEMS

03 What good things we 04 Short-expression that
should do and get suitable with this story
through this story

01
INTRODUCTION

ABOUT PALESTINE

WHAT IS PALESTINE?

Palestine is a small region of land that has played a prominent role in the ancient and
modern history of the Middle East. The history of Palestine has been marked by frequent
political conflict and violent land seizures because of its importance to several major world
religions, and because Palestine sits at a valuable geographic crossroads between Africa and
Asia. Today, Arab people who call this territory home are known as Palestinians, and the
people of Palestine have a strong desire to create a free and independent state in this
contested region of the world.
The word Palestine derives from the Greek word ‘ Philistia ‘, which dates to Ancient Greek
writer’s descriptions of the region in the 12th century B.C. Since the fall of the Ottoman
Empire in World War I to 1948, Palestine typically referred to the geographic region located
between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.

1. Throughout history, Palestine has been ruled by numerous groups, including the
Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Fatimids, Seljuk Turks,
Crusaders, Egypciant and Mamelukes.

2. From about 1517 to 1917, the Ottoman Empire ruled much of the region.
3. When World War I ended in 1918, the British took control of Palestine. The League of

Nations issued a British mandate for Palestine—a document that gave Britain
administrative control over the region, and included provisions for establishing a Jewish
national homeland in Palestine—which went into effect in 1923.
4. Between the 1920s and 40s, the number of Jews arriving there grew, with many fleeing from
persecution in Europe and seeking a homeland after the Holocaust of WWII.
5. Violence between Jews and Arabs, and against British rule, also grew.
6. In 1947, the UN voted for Palestine to be split into separate Jewish and Arab states, with
Jerusalem becoming an international city.
7. That plan was accepted by Jewish leaders but rejected by the Arab side and never
implemented.

The partition of Palestine

In 1947, after more than two decades of British rule, the United Nations proposed a plan to
partition Palestine into two sections: an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab

state. The city of Jerussalem, which was claimed as a capital by both Jews and Palestinian
Arabs, was to be an international territory with a special status.

Jewish leaders accepted the plan, but many Palestinian Arabs—some of whom had been
actively fighting British and Jewish interests in the region since the 1920s—vehemently

opposed it.
Arab groups argued that they represented the majority of the population in certain regions and
should be granted more territory. They began to form volunteer armies throughout Palestine.

By the time the fighting ended in a ceasefire the following year, Israel controlled most of the
territory.

Jordan occupied land which became known as the West Bank, and Egypt occupied Gaza.
Jerusalem was divided between Israeli forces in the West, and Jordanian forces in the East.
Because there was never a peace agreement - each side blamed the other - there were more

wars and fighting in the decades which followed.



In another war in 1967, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as
most of the Syrian Golan Heights, and Gaza and the Egyptian Sinai peninsula.

Most Palestinian refugees and their descendants live in Gaza and the West Bank, as
well as in neighbouring Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

Neither they nor their descendants have been allowed by Israel to return to their
homes - Israel says this would overwhelm the country and threaten its capital, while
the Palestinians claim East Jerussalem as the capital of future Palestinian state. The

US is one of only a handful of countries to recognise Israel’s claim to the whole of
the city.

The PLO is Born

In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed for the purpose of establishing
Palestinian Arab state on the land previously administered under the British Mandate, and
which the PLO considered to be occupied illegitimately by the State of Israel.

Although the PLO was originally dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel as a means of
attaining its goal of Palestinian statehood, in the 1993 Oslo Accords, the PLO accepted Israel's
right to exist in exchange for formal recognition of the PLO by Israel—a high water mark in
Israeli-Palestinian relations.

In 1969, the well-known Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat became the Chairman of the PLO and held
that title until he died in 2004.

Who is HAMAS ?

Hamas was founded in the 1980s and Hamas has continued its war
has been opposed to the late againstIsrael from within the
Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Gaza Strip, claiming it is acting
Liberation Organition(PLO) since
its inception. Unlike the PLO, ‘self-defense’
Hamas does not recognixe In 2014, Hamas and fatah
Israel’s right to exist. Its agreed to a deal that would form
emblem depicts the Dome of the a unified national Palestinian
Rock in Jerussalem, and the
outline of the territory of Israel, government.
Gaza and west bank as a single
Palestinian state. In 1993, Arafat
made peace with Israel in the
context of the Oslo Accords,
ending the first intifada, which
began in 1987. Hamas rejected
the peace process and continued
its terror attacks against Israel.

02 PALESTINIAN
OPPRESSION
WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

Situation timeline

Friday, May 7 May 8 May 9 May 22
2021
• Prayers are • At least 395 • Celebrations in
• It’s ramadan held peacefully Palestinians Gaza as ceasefire
• Muslims were wounded takes hold
• Violence erupts on Monday
gather at the in East morning in • Not fully 12 hours
Al-Aqsa Jerussalem clashes between after a 11-day
mosque to Israelis and cease-fire
pray Palestinians annoumced, Israel
• Violence had once again
broken out • Twenty-two attacked Al-Aqsa
and muslims Palestinians,
get attacked including 9
children are
killed

2021 ISRAEL-PALESTINE CRISIS

• The violence coincided with Qard Night, observed by Muslims, and Jerussalem

Day (9–10 May), an Israeli national holiday. The confrontations occurred ahead of a

planned Jerusalem Day march by far-right Jewish nationalists that was later

canceled. More than 300 people were injured, mostly Palestinians,drawing

international condemnation. The Supreme Court ruling was then delayed for 30 days

• as the attorney general of Israel, Avichai Mandelbleit, sought to reduce tensions.
On 10 May, Hamas gave Israel an ultimatum to withdraw security forces from the

Temple Mount complex and Sheikh Jarrah. On the same day, Hamas and Palestinian

Islamic Jihad began firing rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, hitting multiple

residences and a school. Israel began a campaign of airstrikes against Gaza; by 16

May, some 950 targeted attacks had demolished, completely or partially: 18

buildings including four high-rise towers, 40 schools and four hospitals, and also

struck the al-shati refugee camp . In addition, at least 19 medical facilities have been

damaged or destroyed by Israeli bombardment. By 17 May, the United

Nations estimated that Israel had demolished 94 buildings in Gaza, comprising 461

housing and commercial units.

• As a result of the violence, at least • As of 20 May 2021, the Palestinian National

Authority reported injuries for at least 1,900

248 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, Palestinians,while as of 12 May Israel reported

including 66 children. Palestinian at least 200 injured Israelis.As of 19 May, at

rocket fire has killed 12 in least 72,000 Palestinians have been

Israel, including one child. displaced.Calls for a ceasefire were first
proposed on 13 May by Hamas, but rejected
• On 11 May, the Israel Defences

Force said that at least 15 of the by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palestinian casualties were members • On 18 May, France, with Egypt and Jordan,

of Hamas, and also said that some announced the filing of a United Nations

Palestinian civilian casualties were Security Council resolution for a ceasefire. A

caused by errant rocket launches ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was

within the Gaza Strip. enacted on 21 May 2021, ending 11 days of

fighting with both sides claiming victory.

03
MORAL VALUE

Lesson to be learned from

OUR GOALS

We need to We must be brave
protect and to show people
defend our rights that we’re not as
before it falls to weak as they
strangers. think .
We must have We must choose
sympathy and leaders who are
capable of
stands with the governing a
right side. country well.

04 IDIOMS/POEMS

FOR PALESTINE

A ROSE FOR An apple fell to PALESTINE
PALESTINE the ground and
Newton discovered Old plant of Asia
An act defiance does not Mutilated vine
make someone a terrorist. GRAVITI. Holding earth’s leaping sap
In every stem and shoot
To define a person as much Thousands That lopped pff, sprouts
is of palestinians again
fall and no one Why should you seek a
like scolding at Has discovered plateau walled about,
a blooming flower. HUMANITY. Whose garden is the world ?
We were born to thrive and

even in captivity we shall
bloom.
The fragrance of these
rare flowers will

spread in every corner of
the world.

-THE END- Let’s pray and

That’s it for 50% hope for the
now. best

Thank you for 50% Its not a muslim
your time. issue, its about
HUMANITY