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The protesters are part of over two thirds of the Jewish Israeli population that are opposed to the sending of humanitarian aid to Gaza, per a February 2024 survey done by the Israeli Democracy Institute. [123] Israeli military and police officers were reportedly tipping off the activists and settlers on the location of the humanitarian aid trucks.
Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".This acronym, HMS, was glossed in the 1988 Hamas Covenant [100] by the Arabic word ḥamās (حماس) which itself means "zeal", "strength", or "bravery".
1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. [33] [34] His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
Many Jews originated from Arab and Muslim countries today reject Mizrahi (or any) umbrella description, and prefer to identify themselves by their particular country of origin, or that of their immediate ancestors, such as "Moroccan Jew", or prefer to use the old term Sephardi in its broader meaning.
Israeli soldiers and protesters in Gaza during the Intifada. Growing Israeli settlement and continuing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip led to the 1987 First Intifada, [87] [88] motivated by collective Palestinian frustration over Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as it approached a twenty-year mark. [89]
Israeli forces opened fire on the Jenin Government Hospital wounding civilians standing in front of the emergency department and killing two. [108] An Israeli airstrike killed three people on 21 March, the second airstrike in less than a month. [109] Doctors reported four casualties following an Israeli drone raid on 27 March. [110]
Military service is a tradition among some of the Druze population, with most opposition in Druze communities of the Golan Heights. 83 per cent of Druze boys serve in the army, according to the IDF's statistics. [60] According to the Israeli army in 2010, 369 Druze soldiers had been killed in combat operations since 1948. [61]
Map of Israeli settlements (magenta) in the West Bank in 2020. The population statistics for Israeli settlements in the West Bank are collected by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. As such, the data contains only population of settlements recognized by the Israeli authorities.