WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922.

Detailed explanation-2: -Palestine’s Early Roots Throughout history, Palestine has been ruled by numerous groups, including the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Fatimids, Seljuk Turks, Crusaders, Egyptians and Mamelukes. From about 1517 to 1917, the Ottoman Empire ruled much of the region.

Detailed explanation-3: -The British rule over Palestine lasted roughly thirty years, from 1917 until 1948. In a country that has three thousand years of recorded history, thirty years is a tiny fraction.

Detailed explanation-4: -During World War I, the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the Allies led to the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Britain was granted control of the region by League of Nations mandate, in what became known as Mandatory Palestine.

Detailed explanation-5: -Palestine in the ancient world was part of the region known as Canaan where the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were located. The term ‘Palestine’ was originally a designation of an area of land in southern Canaan which the people known as the Philistines occupied a very small part of.