Recently violent clashes between Israeli and Palestinian factions in Gaza Strip ending by Egypt mediated ceasefire. Arab-Israel conflict Hussein-McMahon (1915) correspondence British support of an independent Arab state for Arab assistance in opposing the Ottoman Empire. In 1917, during World War I, the British captured Palestine from the Ottoman Empire after the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France (1916). Balfour Declaration (1917 ), Britain pledged establishment of Palestine as national home for Jews. The British Mandate period saw rise in immigration of Jews to the Mandate of Palestine. During World War II, the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany gave momentum to the demands for a state for Jews in Palestine. This led to a conflict between Arabs and Jews i.e. Israel-Palestine conflict and Arab-Israel wars In 1947 the United Nations voted to split the Palestine between Arabs and Jews. Jewish leadership accepted while Arabs rejected the agreement. Consequently, Arab states of Egypt, J...