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 Israel's attacks on Iran Nuclear programme, military installations and assassinations of key leaders in Iranian regime has triggered Iran retaliation, thereby plunging the Middle East into crisis. The escalation between the two countries has raised risk of a wider war.

Iraq has also called on the United States to prevent Israeli aircraft from using Iraqi airspace to launch attacks on Iran, as per the bilateral agreements and international law.

1948: Arab Israeli War: Fighting between Palestinians and Jewish militias led by the Haganah, which later became the Israel defence forces, had broken out in 1947 after the UN recommended the partition of what was then British Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish and a Palestine state. Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Transjordan (later Jordan) declared war on Israel on May 15, 1948, a day after it declared its independence. The war formally ended almost a year later, leaving Israel controlling much of the former British Mandate, Egypt in control of Gaza, Jordan in control of the West Bank, and several hundred thousand Palestinians displaced.

2023: Hamas and Israel War: On October 7 2023, more than 1,000 Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel and went on a killing spree, murdering 1,200 men, women and children and abducting another 250 people to take back to Gaza. It was the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. That day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the country, “Israel is at war Since that day, more than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children.

2024: Israel campaign against Hezbollah: Israeli operations in Lebanon defeated Hezbollah and compelled the group to end its involvement in the October 7 War. On November 26, 2024, Israel and Hezbollah reached a ceasefire deal that ended Hezbollah's attacks into Israel and required the group to disarm in southern Lebanon.

2024-25: Israel and Iran conflicts from shadow war to open warfare: The ongoing Gaza conflict and subsequent regional tensions, culminating in direct missile and drone exchanges in 2024, brought the Iran-Israel confrontation close to open warfare. But the crisis boiled over to a full blown open warfare after Israel targeted Iranian nuclear , military installations and killed its key leaders. Iran retaliated with missile strikes against Iran.

1956: Suez Crisis: Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula on October 29 in concert with France and Britain, which aimed at reversing the nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. The attack was brought to a halt under US and Soviet pressure.

1967: Six Day War: Regional tension had been brewing as Israel confronted assaults by Palestinian militants based in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. On June 5th, Israel launched pre-emptive attacks on Egypt, Syria and Jordan, after Egypt built up forces in Sinai and closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping.Israel won a crushing victory by June 10, leaving it in control of Sinai, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights as well as more than one million Palestinians in the newly occupied territories.

1973: Yom Kippur War: On October 6, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise offensive to regain their lost territories, with the Egyptian military overwhelming Israel’s fortifications on the eastern banks of the Suez Canal. Saudi Arabia led an oil boycott in support of the war effort. Israel retained control of the Sinai peninsula, but the war led to negotiations and the signing of the Camp David peace accords in 1979.

1978: Invasion of Lebanon: Israel invaded southern Lebanon in March after attacks by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which had relocated to Lebanon from Jordan after taking part in a civil war there. Israel withdrew in a week after forcing the PLO away from the border.

1982: Invasion of Lebanon: Israel invaded Lebanon again after cross border clashes with the PLO. The invasion led to the siege of Beirut and the exile of the PLO’s leadership to Tunisia. Israel occupied southern Lebanon for almost two decades.

2014: Israel-Gaza War: Simmering tension again broke out into war in July, with Israel launching an air and ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza after the group fired dozens of rockets into Israel. The war, which lasted a month and a half, killed dozens of Israelis and more than 2,000 Palestinians.

2014: Yemen Civil War Conflict: The ongoing Conflict between the Houthi movement and the Yemeni government.

2021: Another Conflict: An 11-day conflict erupted after Hamas fired rockets at cities and towns across Israel following weeks of tension in and around Jerusalem. The scale and the scope of the barrage caught Israel by surprise and it responded by pounding Gaza with air strikes and artillery. Hamas fired more than 3,700 rockets into Israel. The Jewish state was also rocked by communal violence between minority Arab Israelis and Jews and widespread unrest in the occupied West Bank. The conflict ended when Egypt negotiated a ceasefire, along with the US and Qatar.

1973: Yom Kippur War: On October 6, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise offensive to regain their lost territories, with the Egyptian military overwhelming Israel’s fortifications on the eastern banks of the Suez Canal. Saudi Arabia led an oil boycott in support of the war effort. Israel retained control of the Sinai peninsula, but the war led to negotiations and the signing of the Camp David peace accords in 1979.

1978: Invasion of Lebanon: Israel invaded southern Lebanon in March after attacks by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which had relocated to Lebanon from Jordan after taking part in a civil war there. Israel withdrew in a week after forcing the PLO away from the border.

1982: Invasion of Lebanon: Israel invaded Lebanon again after cross border clashes with the PLO. The invasion led to the siege of Beirut and the exile of the PLO’s leadership to Tunisia. Israel occupied southern Lebanon for almost two decades.

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