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The Official Home Web Page Of America Army The Jewish inhabitants had increased from eighty three,790 in 1922 to 608,000 in 1946. In the course of the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel captured the the rest of Mandate Palestine from Jordan and Egypt, and started a policy of building Jewish settlements in these territories. From 1987 to 1993, the First Palestinian Intifada against Israel took place, which included the Declaration of the State of Palestine in 1988 and ended with the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords and the creation of the Palestinian National Authority. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel captured and incorporated a further 26% of the Mandate territory, Jordan captured the area of Judea and Samaria, renaming it the "West Bank", whereas the Gaza Strip was captured by Egypt. Following the 1948 Palestinian exodus, also referred to as al-Nakba, the seven-hundred,000 Palestinians who fled or have been driven from their houses weren't allowed to return following the Lau...