♤ The war resulted in the West Bank including east Jerusalem going to Jordan and the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Israel ended up occupying more territory than the resolution 181 had visualized.

♤ Thus, the First Arab-Israeli war resulted in statelessness for Palestinian people with many becoming refugees in the neighboring Arab states.

♤ The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is created in 1964 with the aim of liberating the whole of historical Palestine.

♤ In the June war of 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria and occupied east Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. This war brought the Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

♤ The first intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule, rages from 1987 to 1993.

♤ In 1993, Israel and the PLO sign a declaration on principles for Palestinian autonomy after six months of secret negotiations in Oslo, launching an abortive peace process.

♤ PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza in July 1994 to create the Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA). Self-rule is established for the first time in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.