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The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition The Balfour Declaration of 1917 issued by the British government endorsed the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine which led to an influx of Jewish immigrants to the region Following World War II and the Holocaust international pressure mounted for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine leading to the creation of Israel in 1948

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