Palestinians seek the diplomatic recognition of their independent state, proclaimed in 1988 on the territories of West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Hamas movement, classified as a terrorist organization by a number of countries including Israel, the United States, Egypt and EU member states, demands that Israel withdraw from territories it seized during the 1967 Six-Day War, which Palestinians claim as their homeland.
The decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been recently aggravated by skirmishes between Palestinian and Israeli security forces at East Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site in September.
On September 20, Israeli authorities detained Hasan Yusef, the leader of Hamas in the West bank, having accused him of provoking a current wave of terror.
New wave of violent clashes breaks out in West Bank
27 October 2015
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A new wave of violent clshes broke out between Palestiniians and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank after the funeral of Eyad Jaradat (19), killed during clashes in Hebron.
