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A. Israel borders Egypt to the southwest, Jordan to the east, Syria to the northeast, and Lebanon to the north. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948, after Israel declared independence, until 1967, when Israel seized control of Gaza during the Six-Day War.
D. The United States joined its three friendly Muslim-majority Mideast nations in mediating talks between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire was welcomed, but doubts for a lasting peace remained over tough issues about governing Gaza, disarming Hamas, securing the peace, and fully withdrawing Israeli forces.
B. The war displaced about 90% of Gaza’s 2 million residents and killed more than 67,000 of them. With fighting stopped, more bodies were being pulled out of the rubble. Famine was declared in parts of Gaza, and the war led to accusations of genocide. Israel vehemently denied both allegations.
A. The British took control of Palestine from the defeated Ottoman Empire after World War I. They promised Jews they could build a homeland on some of the land, angering Arabs. Israeli military victories in 1948 and 1967 created more than 1 million Arab refugees, whose population has grown to about 6 million.