From the creation of Israel to colonization, the history of Jerusalem in maps, the holy city at the heart of the conflict

2024-01-06 15:05:22

The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP

DECRYPTION – Cut in two at the end of the first war in 1949, reunified in violation of international law in 1967 and finally proclaimed the capital of Israel, Jerusalem is the tragic symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Le Figaro looks back at its recent history in maps.

«If there wasn’t a war, it would make a lot of noise“. While Israel continues its offensive in Gaza, in a deadly war triggered by the bloody Hamas attack on October 7, the Jerusalem municipality has given its final agreement for the expansion of a colony in East Jerusalem. More than 1,700 housing units will be built, the Israeli anti-colonization NGO Peace Now indicated on December 6, highlighting the aspect “very problematic» of this new neighborhood for the continuity of a possible Palestinian state.

At the very heart of the tragic conflict which has pitted Arab countries and then the Palestinian population against Israel for 75 years, the city of Jerusalem today crystallizes the insoluble Israeli-Palestinian problem. In 1949, at the end of the first Arab-Israeli war, the thrice-holy city was cut in two. In 1967, after its spectacular victory in 6 days against its Jordanian, Egyptian and Syrian enemies, Israel occupied the eastern part of…

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