The Fight for the Homeland

By William Pergola

Recently a lot of events have been happening around the world. Imagine it’s May 1948 and the Holocaust just ended; you’re tired and have nowhere to go, then you here that the United States of America made a plan called Resolution 181 which basically led the British mandate of Palestine to divide into Jewish and Arab states. After this happened Israel was created and this made Palestinians mad and a war sparked leaving many citizens displaced. This caused a 75 year conflict which led to  another war today. It’s 2023 everything's mostly peaceful right? Well one day a group named Hamas (Hamas is a military group of Palestinians that resonate on the Gaza Strip) started a fight with the people of Israel. On October 7th 2023, they planned a surprise attack on Israeli territory launching  a massive military operation on Israel. They shot thousands of missiles attacking them from every side. After this, Israel responded by sending airstrikes in Palestinian territory killing thousands. This was the start of war. Many innocent Israeli citizens and Palestinian citizens died for just being on one of the sides. This war has been brutal, affecting other places like the U.S. Protests have broken out, people  have been fighting, and there are many aggravated people on both sides. When will this war end? Hopefully soon because there is too much bloodshed.