In 1957 a man by the name Yassir Arafat, in Kuwait, found the Palestinian Liberation Committee along with Khalil Al Wazir (Abu Jihad) Farouq Qadumi, Khalid al Hassan. It was later renamed the Fatah.

Ten years later, another major war of this time took place. It was known as the Six-Day War. The Israelis caught the Arabs by surprise, in 1967, and destroyed Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian forces. Israel then regained control of the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, and gained control of the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and all of Jerusalem. Palestinian refuges worsened the conflict by fleeing the fighting. In November that year, the UN Security Council passed a resolution for peace by exchanging land and resettling the Palestinian refugees.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), headed by Ahmed Shukhairy, was formed to take actions against Israel, as an alternative to the Fatah. When the PLO started to fade away, Palestinians took matters into their own hands. The First Intifada, revolt, started in 1987 in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In 1993 and 1995 Palestine signed off on the Oslo Declaration of Principles and The Oslo Interim Agreement, which supposedly gave them temporary entity to govern the areas of the Gaza Strip and West Bank. In 1996 the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank elected Yassir Arafat as a "president." He served until his recent death in November of 2004.

Arafat and Netanyahu, prime minister from Israel, signed an accord which said that Israel remove troops from more areas of the West Bank in return for Palestinian security against terrorist attacks on Israel. After the first major event of the accord took place, Israel claimed that Palestine did not carry out their part. This peace process had been stalled multiple times. In 1999, Labor Party leader Ehud Barak defeated Netanyahu and promised that the peace promise will proceed.

By the summer of 2000, in Camp David, Maryland, the two sides were unable to come up with an agreement. This led to a second Intifada, "the resumption of widespread resistance to Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip..." (Israel-Palestine packet)

There are currently, ongoing conflicts between Israel and Palestine. There have recently been suicide bombings, and other terrorist attacks. A peace settlement is yet to be reached.