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C. Israel is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast Jordan to the east, the Red Sea to the south, Egypt to the southwest and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are supported and armed by Iran. Hamas called on Hezbollah and Palestinians in the West Bank to attack Israeli targets.
D. Israel’s Arab neighbors attacked it on Oct. 6, 1973, the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, in an attempt to reclaim territory Israel seized in the 1967 Six-Day War. After the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan controlled the West Bank. Israel occupied both of those territories and more after the Six-Day War.
B. In 1979 Egypt became the first Arab nation to recognize Israel’s existence since it declared its independence in 1948. It was followed by Jordan in 1994 and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in 2020. "All the agreements of normalization that you (Arab states) signed with (Israel) will not end this conflict," said Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
B. Jordan has 2 million of the more than 5.6 million Palestinians who were registered as refugees in 2019 by the United Nations. It is estimated that more than 1 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants have not been registered by the UN. Gaza’s large population and small area make it one of the most crowded areas in the world and it is among the poorest.