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Arab opposition to an Israeli state began after the Balfour Declaration 1917, which supported the idea of a Jewish national homeland. In the 1920s there were anti-Zionist riots in Palestine, after the British mandate government allowed thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine from all over the world.

In 1936 an Arab revolt led to a British royal commission that recommended partition (approved by United Nations 1947), but rejected by the Arabs.

When it became clear that the British intended to leave by May 15, leaders of the Yishuv decided (as they claim) to implement that part of the partition plan calling for establishment of a Jewish state. In Tel Aviv on May 14 the Provisional State Council, formerly the National Council, "representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the World Zionist Movement," proclaimed the "establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Medinat Israel (the State of Israel) … open to the immigration of Jews from all the countries of their dispersion."

On May 15 the armies of Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq joined Palestinian and other Arab guerrillas who had been fighting Jewish forces since November 1947. The war now became an international conflict, the first Arab-Israeli War.

The Arabs failed to prevent establishment of a Jewish state, and the war ended with four UN-arranged armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The frontiers defined in the armistice agreements remained until they were altered by Israel's conquests during the Six-Day War in 1967.

"Battle of the Roads". The Arab League sponsored Arab Liberation Army, composed of Palestinian Arabs and Arabs from other Middle Eastern countries, attacked Jewish communities in Palestine, and Jewish traffic on major roads. The Arab forces mainly concentrated on major roadways in an attempt to cut off Jewish communities from each other. Arab forces at that time had engaged in sporadic and unorganized ambushes since the riots of December 1947, and began to make organized attempts to cut off the highway linking Tel Aviv with Jerusalem, the city's only supply route. The Arab Army cut off supplies and controlled several strategic vantage points overlooking the sole highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, enabling them to fire at convoys going to the city. By late March 1948, the vital road that connected Tel Aviv to western Jerusalem, where about 16% of all Jews in the Palestinian region lived, was cut off and under siege.

April 6-12, 1948 : Operation Nachshon. The Haganah decided to launch a major military counteroffensive to break the siege of Jerusalem. On 6 April the Haganah and its strike force, the Palmach, in an offensive to secure strategic points, took al-Qastal, an important roadside town 2 kilometers west of Deir Yassin. But intense fighting lasted for days more as control of that key village remained contested.

April 9, 1948 : Throughout the siege on Jerusalem, Jewish convoys tried to reach the city to alleviate the food shortage, which, by April, had become critical. On 9 April 1948, IZL-Lehi forces attacked Deir Yassin, as part of Operation Nachshon to break the siege of western Jerusalem. On Deir Yassin massacre, Irgun and Lehi members attack the Arab village of Deir Yassin, killing between 100 and 120 Arabs civilians.

May 15, 1948 : Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Transjordan, Holy War Army, Arab Liberation Army, and local Arabs attack the new Jewish state with the intent of destroying it. The resulting 1948 Arab-Israeli War lasts for 13 months. By the end of the war, about 700,000 Palestinian Arabs leave as refugees for a variety of reasons among them, including: avoidance of crossfire, anticipation of war, expulsion, and the Jews massacre against number of Arab villages.

June 1948 : Violent confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces under the command of David Ben-Gurion, and the paramilitary Jewish group Irgun known as The Altalena Affair results in the dismantlement of the Irgun, Lehi, and all Israeli paramilitary organizations operating outside the IDF.

April 1949 : Israel concludes Armistice Agreements with neighbouring countries. The territory of the British Mandate of Palestine is divided between the State of Israel, the Kingdom of the Jordan (changed from Transjordan) and Egypt.

Arab opposition to an Israeli state began after the Balfour Declaration 1917, which supported the idea of a Jewish national homeland. In the 1920s there were anti-Zionist riots in Palestine, after the British mandate government allowed thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine from all over the world.

In 1936 an Arab revolt led to a British royal commission that recommended partition (approved by United Nations 1947), but rejected by the Arabs.

When it became clear that the British intended to leave by May 15, leaders of the Yishuv decided (as they claim) to implement that part of the partition plan calling for establishment of a Jewish state. In Tel Aviv on May 14 the Provisional State Council, formerly the National Council, "representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the World Zionist Movement," proclaimed the "establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Medinat Israel (the State of Israel) … open to the immigration of Jews from all the countries of their dispersion."

On May 15 the armies of Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq joined Palestinian and other Arab guerrillas who had been fighting Jewish forces since November 1947. The war now became an international conflict, the first Arab-Israeli War.

The Arabs failed to prevent establishment of a Jewish state, and the war ended with four UN-arranged armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The frontiers defined in the armistice agreements remained until they were altered by Israel's conquests during the Six-Day War in 1967.

"Battle of the Roads". The Arab League sponsored Arab Liberation Army, composed of Palestinian Arabs and Arabs from other Middle Eastern countries, attacked Jewish communities in Palestine, and Jewish traffic on major roads. The Arab forces mainly concentrated on major roadways in an attempt to cut off Jewish communities from each other. Arab forces at that time had engaged in sporadic and unorganized ambushes since the riots of December 1947, and began to make organized attempts to cut off the highway linking Tel Aviv with Jerusalem, the city's only supply route. The Arab Army cut off supplies and controlled several strategic vantage points overlooking the sole highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, enabling them to fire at convoys going to the city. By late March 1948, the vital road that connected Tel Aviv to western Jerusalem, where about 16% of all Jews in the Palestinian region lived, was cut off and under siege.

April 6-12, 1948 : Operation Nachshon. The Haganah decided to launch a major military counteroffensive to break the siege of Jerusalem. On 6 April the Haganah and its strike force, the Palmach, in an offensive to secure strategic points, took al-Qastal, an important roadside town 2 kilometers west of Deir Yassin. But intense fighting lasted for days more as control of that key village remained contested.

April 9, 1948 : Throughout the siege on Jerusalem, Jewish convoys tried to reach the city to alleviate the food shortage, which, by April, had become critical. On 9 April 1948, IZL-Lehi forces attacked Deir Yassin, as part of Operation Nachshon to break the siege of western Jerusalem. On Deir Yassin massacre, Irgun and Lehi members attack the Arab village of Deir Yassin, killing between 100 and 120 Arabs civilians.

May 15, 1948 : Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Transjordan, Holy War Army, Arab Liberation Army, and local Arabs attack the new Jewish state with the intent of destroying it. The resulting 1948 Arab-Israeli War lasts for 13 months. By the end of the war, about 700,000 Palestinian Arabs leave as refugees for a variety of reasons among them, including: avoidance of crossfire, anticipation of war, expulsion, and the Jews massacre against number of Arab villages.

June 1948 : Violent confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces under the command of David Ben-Gurion, and the paramilitary Jewish group Irgun known as The Altalena Affair results in the dismantlement of the Irgun, Lehi, and all Israeli paramilitary organizations operating outside the IDF.

April 1949 : Israel concludes Armistice Agreements with neighbouring countries. The territory of the British Mandate of Palestine is divided between the State of Israel, the Kingdom of the Jordan (changed from Transjordan) and Egypt.

This article is about the Palestinian territories as a geopolitical phenomenon. For more on their geography, demographics and general history, see West Bank and Gaza Strip

Map of the West Bank.

Map of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian territories is one of a number of designations for those portions of the British Mandate of Palestine captured and administered by Jordan and by Egypt in the late 1940's, and later by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War.

Today, the designation typically refers to the territories governed in varying degrees by the Arab Palestinian Authority (42% of the West Bank plus all of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip), or includes all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It does not include the Golan Heights captured from Syria during the Six Day War, or the Sinai Peninsula, captured from Egypt at that time but later returned by Israel to Egypt after a peace accord was signed between the two countries in 1979. Israel does not consider East Jerusalem nor the former Israeli - Jordanian no man's land (both annexed in 1967) to be parts of the West Bank. Both in fact fall under full Israeli law and jurisdiction as opposed to the 58% of the Israeli-defined West Bank which is ruled by the Israeli 'Judea and Samaria Civil Administration'.

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Other terms used to describe these areas collectively are "the disputed territories", "Israeli-occupied territories", and "the occupied territories". Further terms include "Yesha" (Judea-Samaria-Gaza), "liberated territories", "1967 territories", and simply "the territories".

The United Nations generally uses the term "Occupied Palestinian Territory", with the "Palestinian" label having gained use since the 1970s. Previous UNSC resolutions (such as 242 and 338) use the term "territories occupied by Israel", whereas in the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 passed on November 29, 1947, the term "Samaria and Judea" was used. Many Jews object to the term "Palestinian territories", which they perceive as a rejection of what is in their view legitimate Jewish land according to written history of the Mediterranean including Greek and Roman writings, the Hebrew Bible and indigenous Jewish history (and current settlements) in the area. Additionally, the term "Palestinian" had also been applied for many years to Palestinian Jews in the same region.

[edit] Political status

The political status of these territories has been the subject of negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and of numerous statements and resolutions by the United Nations. See List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel for further details.

The current and future political status of the territories is highly controversial. Specific issues include the legality of Israeli's policy of encouraging settlement, whether it is legitimate for Israel to annex portions of the territories, whether Israel is legally an occupying power according to the Fourth Geneva Convention, and whether an independent Arab state will be created in the territories.

Since 1994, the autonomous Palestinian Authority has exercised various degrees of control in large parts of the territories, pursuant to the Oslo Accords.

Since the Battle of Gaza (2007), the territories have split into two administrative entities, with Hamas leading the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian National Authority (with Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah in leadership) continuing to administer the West Bank despite the election (in January, 2006) of Hamas to the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council. Neither group recognize the other one as the official Palestinian leadership.

[edit] Boundaries

The boundaries between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the State of Israel, known as the Green Line, are a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, while their boundaries with Jordan and Egypt follow the international border negotiated in the Israel-Egypt peace treaty and Israel-Jordan peace treaty. The natural geographic boundaries for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, respectively.

Between 1949 and 1967, these territories were occupied by Jordan and Egypt respectively, but the term "Palestinian territories" or "Occupied Palestinian Territories" gained wide usage after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, about the same time as the term "Palestinian" first started to be used exclusively in respect to Arab population of Palestine. Since then, the United Nations and most foreign governments regard the territories as being under Israeli military occupation.

Since 1994, the autonomous Palestinian Authority has exercised various degrees of control in large parts of the territories, pursuant to the Oslo Accords.

Since the Battle of Gaza (2007), the territories have split into two administrational entities, with Hamas leading the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority (with Fatah in leadership) leading the West Bank.

[edit] The Term "Occupied Palestinian Territories"

Generally, the term "Occupied Palestinian Territories" is used by:

International Community, consisting of all members of the United Nations with the exception of seven states, since 1967-present.
International Court of Justice, since 1967-present.
journalists, since 1967-present, to indicate lands where Arab Palestinians presently dwell, outside the Green Line, or the 1949 Armistice lines;

The term is often used interchangeably with the term Occupied territories, although the latter refers to an inclusive set of both the "Palestinian territories" and the Golan Heights. The Golan is not settled by Palestinians nor claimed by them, but rather by Syria, though the tiny Shebaa Farms area is also claimed by Lebanon. The confusion stems from the fact that all these territories were captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War and are regarded by the United Nations as being illegally occupied by Israel.

The term "Occupied Palestinian Territories" is challenged by some Israelis because it may either disregard Israeli claims to the territories or possible border change after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Israeli right-wing politician Shmuel Katz, in a preliminary brief, whose arguments were analysed and dismissed later by the International Court of Justice to which it was directed, rejects the rulings of that Court and, with it, resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, asserting that the standard term in international law, "occupied Palestinian lands" is "the common language of Arab anti-Israel propaganda, a part of the Arabs' fictional history, which it has succeeded in disseminating throughout the whole wide world". Katz further claimed that "Impartial groups should not be blind to the fact that there are two sides to the dispute in Palestine, and that Israel rejects absolutely the notion that it is illegally holding 'Palestinian lands'."^[1] Similary, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has written: "It would be far more accurate to describe the West Bank and Gaza Strip as "disputed territories" to which both Israelis and Palestinians have claims"

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In 1922 after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire that ruled Palestine for four centuries (1517-1917), the British Mandate for Palestine was established. Large-scale Jewish immigration from abroad, mainly from Eastern Europe took place during the British Mandate.^[2] The future of Palestine was hotly disputed between Arabs and Jews. In 1947, the total Jewish ownership of land in Palestine was 1,850,000 dunums or 1,850 square kilometers, which is 7.04% of the total land of Palestine.[1] Public property or "crown lands", the bulk of which was in the Negev, belonging to the government of Palestine may have made up as much as 70% of the total land; with the Arabs, Christians and others owning the rest.^[3]

The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan proposed a division of the mandated territory between an Arab and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem and the surrounding area to be a corpus separatum under a special international regime. The regions allotted to the proposed Arab state included what would become the Gaza Strip and almost all of what would become the West Bank, as well as other areas.

The Partition Plan was passed by the UN General Assembly on November 1947. Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, one day before the expiration of the British Mandate for Palestine. US President Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel de facto the following day, and the United States recognized it de jure on January 31, 1949. (http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/us-israel/) The Arab countries responded by declaring war on the newly formed State of Israel, which ended in Israel's victory.

After the war, Israel controlled many of the areas designated for the Arab state, and the negotiated agreements established Armistice Demarcation Lines (ADLs), which did not have the status of recognised international borders.

Thus the areas held by Jordanian and Iraqi forces (with minor adjustments) came under Jordanian control, and became known as the West Bank (of the Jordan River, by contrast with the East Bank, or Jordan proper); the area held by Egyptian forces, along the Mediterranean coast in the vicinity of the city of Gaza and south to the international border, remained under Egyptian control and became known as the Gaza Strip.

For nineteen years following the 1949 Armistice Agreements until the 1967 Six Day War, Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and Jordan occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and no Arab state was created. In 1950, Jordan annexed the territories it occupied;^{[citation needed]} this annexation was not officially recognized by other countries,^{[citation needed]} with the sole exception of the United Kingdom^{[citation needed]} (but not, as is often said,^{[attribution needed]} Pakistan).^{[citation needed]}

Article 24 of the Palestinian National Charter of 1964^[4] stated: "This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area."

Israel captured both territories in the 1967 Six-Day War; since then they have been under Israeli control. Immediately after the war, on June 19, 1967, the Israeli government offered to return the Golan Heights to Syria, the Sinai to Egypt and most of the West Bank to Jordan in exchange for peace. At the Khartoum Summit in September, the Arabs responded to this overture by declaring "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with Israel." (http://www.mideastweb.org/khartoum.htm)

UN Security Council Resolution 242 introduced the "Land for Peace" formula for normalizing relations between Israel and its neighbors. This formula was used when Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in 1979 in exchange for a peace treaty. While that treaty mentioned a "linkage" between Israeli-Egyptian peace and Palestinian autonomy, the formerly Egyptian-occupied territory in Gaza was excluded from the agreement, and remained under Israeli control.

The Oslo Accords of the early 1990s between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority. This was an interim organization created to administer a limited form of Palestinian self-governance in the territories for a period of five years during which final-status negotiations would take place. The Palestinian Authority carried civil responsibility in some rural areas, as well as security responsibility in the major cities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Although the five-year interim period expired in 1999, the final status agreement has yet to be concluded despite attempts such as the 2000 Camp David Summit, the Taba summit, and the unofficial Geneva Accords.

In 2005, Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip, ceding full effective internal control of the territory to the Palestinian Authority.

Since the Battle of Gaza (2007) the two separate territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, are divided into a Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip and a Fatah civil leadership in the autonomous areas of the West Bank. Each sees itself as the administrator of all Palestinian territories and does not acknowledge the other one as the official government of the territories. The Palestinian territories have therefore de facto split into two entities.

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See related articles: International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Status of territories captured by Israel.

The final status of the "Palestinian territories" as becoming (wholly or largely) an independent state for "Arabs" is supported by the countries that back the Quartet's "Road map for peace". The government of Israel also accepted the road map but with 14 reservations [2].

Although Israeli settlements were not part of the Oslo Accords negotiations, the Arab position is that the creation and the presence of Israeli settlements in those areas is a violation of international law. This has also been affirmed by a majority of members of the Geneva convention: "12. The participating High Contracting Parties call upon the Occupying Power to fully and effectively respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and to refrain from perpetrating any violation of the Convention. They reaffirm the illegality of the settlements in the said territories and of the extension thereof. They recall the need to safeguard and guarantee the rights and access of all inhabitants to the Holy Places." [3]

East Jerusalem, captured in 1967, was unilaterally annexed by Israel. The UN Security Council Resolution 478 condemned the Jerusalem Law as "a violation of international law". This annexation has not been recognized by other nations, although the United States Congress has declared its intention to recognize the annexation (a proposal that has been condemned by other states and organizations). Because of the question of Jerusalem's status, some states refuse to accept Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and treat Tel Aviv as the capital, basing their diplomatic missions there. Israel asserts that these territories are not currently claimed by any other state, and that Israel has the right to control them.

Israel's position has not been officially accepted by most countries and international bodies. The West Bank, and the Gaza Strip have been referred to as occupied territories (with Israel as the occupying power) by Palestinian Arabs [4], the rest of the Arab bloc, the UK [5], the EU, (usually) the USA ([6], [7]), both the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations [8], the International Court of Justice, and the Israeli Supreme Court (see Israeli West Bank barrier). The United Nations did not declare any change in the status of the territories as of the creation of the Palestinian National Authority between 1993 and 2000. Although a 1999 U.N. document (see the link above) implied that the chance for a change in that status was slim at that period, most observers agreed that the Palestinian territories' classification as occupied was losing substantiality, and would be withdrawn after the signing of a permanent peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians (see also Proposals for a Palestinian state).

During the period between the 1993 Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada beginning in 2000, Israeli officials claimed that the term "occupation" did not accurately reflect the state of affairs in the territories. During this time, the Palestinian population in large parts of the territories had a large degree of autonomy and only limited exposure to the IDF except when seeking to move between different areas. Following the events of the Second Intifada, and in particular, Operation Defensive Shield, most territories, including Palestinian cities (Area A), are back under effective Israeli military control, so the discussion along those lines is largely moot.

In the summer of 2005, Israel implemented its unilateral disengagement plan; about 8500 Israeli citizens living in the Gaza Strip were forcibly removed from the territory; some received alternative homes and a sum of money. The Israeli Defence Forces vacated Gaza in 2005, but invaded it again in 2006 in response to rocket attacks and the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas.

The Palestinian territories have been assigned a country code of PS in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, and accordingly, the Palestinian Authority was granted control of the corresponding Internet country code top-level domain .ps.

[edit] United Nations Security Council Resolution 242

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (S/RES/242), one of the most commonly referenced UN resolutions in Middle Eastern politics, was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967 in the aftermath of the Six Day War. It was adopted under Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter,^[5] and was reaffirmed by UN Security Council Resolution 338, adopted after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

The resolution calls for the "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (there has been some disagreement about whether this means all the territories: see UN Security Council Resolution 242: semantic dispute) and the "[t]ermination of all claims or states of belligerency". It also calls for the mutual recognition by the belligerent parties (Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan) of each other's established states and calls for the establishment of secure and recognized boundaries for all parties.

گروه حزب الله فلسطين
هسته اوليه اين گروه در سال 1974 م. به صورت يك تيم و مجموعه عملياتي توسط احمد مهنا و شهيد مصباح الوري كه به مدت 5 سال در يك زندان به سر مي بردند و تعدادي ديگر كه بعدها جزو هسته هاي اوليه جنبش جهاد اسلامي شدند و آن جنبش را تشكيل دادند، در زندان شكل گرفت.
البته اين گروه به طور رسمي با عنوان حزب الله فعاليت نمي كردند و تنها گروهي كه به شكل كه به شكل جهادي فعاليت خود را با نام رسمي علني نمود جنبش جهاد اسلامي فلسطين بود كه پس از پيروزي انقلاب اسلامي ايران با عنوان « جنبش جهاد اسلامي فلسطين» شروع به فعاليت جهادي عليه رژيم صهيونيستي كرد. احمد معنا به همراه تيم و افراد وابسته به خود در ابتدا در چارچوب و تحت نام جهاد اسلامي فلسطين فعاليت مي كرد تا اينكه رهبران جهاد اسلامي به لبنان تبعيد شدند و بعد از تبعيد، حدوداً يكسال نگذاشته بود كه مهنا با شهيد دكتر فتحي شقاقي دبير كل جنبش جهاد اسلامي فلسطين اختلاف پيدا كرد كه در نهايت وي از جهاد اسلامي خارج شد و با همكاري شيخ اسعد ثميمي تحت نام جهاد اسلامي بيت المقدس شروع به فعاليت كرد اما به اصرار و درخواست مسئولان جنبش جهاد اسلامي فلسطين نام سازمان خود را از جهاد اسلامي بيت المقدس به حزب الله فلسطين تغيير داد و تحت اين نام به ادامه حيات و فعاليت نظامي پرداخت. مدتي نيز شيخث سيد بركه كه از اعضاي جنبش جهاد اسلامي فلسطين به حزب ا... پيوست و با سمت دبير كل، حزب ا... فلسطين در كنار احمد مهنا تحت نام اين حزب فعاليت كرد اما مدتي نگذشت كه سيدبركه بنا به درخواست مسئولان جنبش جهاد اسلامي از حزب ا... جدا شد و مجدداً به اين جنبش پيوست و احمد مهنا دبير كل حزب ا... فلسطين گرديد. وي در مورد تشكيل حزب ا... فلسطين مي گويد:
« يكي از علل تشكيل حزب الله، ظهور جمهوري اسلامي ايران بود. همچنين دريافت اين حقيقت كه « فتح » مبارزه بدون اتكا به اصول و مبادي اسلامي را مدنظر قرار داده و اخوان المسلمين تز و هدف اسلامي را بدون تكيه بر عمليات جهادي دنبال مي كند.» افراد اين سازمان پس از آزادي زندان درصد تشكيل سه دايره مهم برآمدند.
1- دايره مبارزه و مقاومت مسلحانه در داخل سرزمينهاي اشغالي
2- دايره مبارزه عليه دشمن در كشورهاي عربي پيرامون اسرائيل
3- دايره جهاني مبارزه عليه موسسات و شخصيتهاي صهيونيستي در تمامي نقاط دنيا.
دبير كل حزب ا... مي گويد كه يك مجله سري را منتشر مي ساخت كه مسئوليت آن به عهده احمد مهنا و شهيد مصباح السوري بود.
حزب ا... خواهان اسلام و جهاد مبتني بر اسلام است و معتقد است سازماندهي سياسي بايد به گونه اي باشد كه مردم جذب شوند و احساس كنند كه گروههاي جهادي در جهت اهدا و آرمانهاي آنان حركت مي كنند.
حزب ا... اعتقاد دارد در حال حاضر دو خط كاملاً متمايز در صحنه فلسطين وجود دارد.
1- خط اسلامي كه مبارزه با اسرائيل را مطرح مي كند
2- خط سازش با اسرائيل
به نظر حزب ا... تنها حركت مسلحانه مبتني بر اسلام، در داخل و خارج فلسطين مي تواند به نجات فلسطين منجر شود. به نظر احمد مهنا، دبير كل حزب ا... فلسطين، انتفاضه يعني مقدمه انقلاب. او معتقد است پديده جديدي اتفاق افتاده و آن جهاد مسلحانه به نام اسلام است. اسلام وارد مقوله نبرد با اسرائيل شده است. او اعتراف مي كند كه حركت انقلابي اسلامي ايران بر انتفاضه در داخل فلسطين و حركت حزب الله در جنوب لبنان اثر گذاشته است. به نظر احمد مهنا اگر جمهوري اسلامي ايران نبود، مقاومت اسلامي در فلسطين و لبنان هم نبود. در انتفاضه، مردم به شكل وسيع به ميدان آمدند، سنگ در دست گرفتند و از شهادت نترسيدند. عمليات مسلحانه در ميان مردم شكل گرفت و اين امر با وضع سابق تفاوت جدي دارد. به نظر حزب ا... مشكل امروز فلسطين، سازمانهاي فلسطيني هستند نه مردم. زيرا اگر همه سازمانها همزمان و متحد بودند، اسرائيل نمي توانست دست به اخراج فلسطينيها بزند.
در سالهاي 1978-1979 تيم عملياتي احمد مهنا كه آن هنگام در جهاد اسلامي بود، عملياتي را در غزه عليه اسرائيليها انجام داد. در سال 1979 بمبي را در خان يونس منفجر كرد. در سال 1986 زماني كه گشتيهاي اسرائيلي وارد « ميدان فلسطين» ( ميداني كه در جنوب يك مسجد در غزه) شدند، با اسلحه، مسلسل، بمب و نارنجك به آنها حمله ور شدند و تلفاتي به نيروهاي اسرائيلي وارد كردند. رژيم صهيونيستي به اين عمليات نيروهاي جهادي اعتراف نمود.
پس از شروع انتفاضه تيم عملياتي حزب ا... در جنبش جهاد اسلامي عمليات ديرالبلح را انجام داد. همچنين اين سازمان در مسير رام ا... قدس يك اتوبوس اسرائيلي را مورد حمله قرار داد. حزب ا... در شرايطي كه عرفات براي صلح صلح و شناسايي اسرائيل تلاش مي كرد، عمليات اسماعيليه مصر را در سال 1990 م. انجام داد تا ياسر عرفات را در تنگنا قرار دهد. در اين عمليات تلاش صلح عرفات و سازش با اسرائيل را نقش بر آب ساخت. در اين عمليات 11 صهيونيست كشته و 17 تن زخمي شدند. همچنين عمليات شليك موشك به داخل سرزمينهاي اشغالي از طريق اردن تماماً كار حزب الله و به نام حزب الله فلسطين بود. اين سازمان 3 الي 4 بار اسرائيل را از طريق اردن مورد حمله موشكي قرار داد. حزب ا... تنها به فعاليتهاي نظامي و حمله به اهداف اسرائيل چه در داخل و چه در غزه و ساير نقاط مي پردازد. هدف اين سازمان، عمليات است و در پايان عمليات گروههاي خود، اطلاعيه و اعلاميه اي بر ديوار نمي زند و بيانيه پخش نمي كند. اين سازمان در لبنان، اردن و... تحت نامهاي مختلف فعاليت كرده است. و مدتي است كه تحت نام حزب ا... فلسطين، عمليات انجام مي دهد.
تعدادي از كادر رهبري حزب الله فلسطين، در لبنان، ليبي و الجزاير به سر مي برند.

حواشی امنیتی سفر بوش به فلسطین اشغالی!

خیابانهای محل عبور، برای اطمینان از عدم بمبگذاری یکبار حفر شده بودند. آمریکاییها به همه دستور داده بودند که اسلحه های خود را تمام مدت باید به سمت پایین نگه دارند و تهدید کرده بودند که کسی که دهانه تفنگش به سمت بالا باشد، از سوی 250 تک تیر انداز حرفه ای آمریکا که در پشت بامهای منطقه پخش شده اند مورد تیراندازی قرار خواهد گرفت.

ساختمان نخست وزیری فلسطین در رام الله و مناطق اطراف و همچنین تمام خیابانهای منتهی به آن در مدت بازدید بوش از فلسطین اشغالی تبدیل به یک پایگاه نظامی آمریکایی شده بود.

به گزارش «فردا» و به نقل از پایگاه های اطلاع رسانی عربی ، ببیش از 4هزار نیروی امنیتی فلسطین کلاههای پوشیده بودند تا از عناصر دشمن" شناخته شوند. همچنین آمریکاییها به همه آنها دستور داده بودند که اسلحه های خود را تمام مدت باید به سمت پایین نگه دارند و تهدید کرده بودند که کسی که دهانه تفنگش به سمت بالا باشد، از سوی 250 تک تیر انداز حرفه آمریکا که در پشت بامهای منطقه پخش شده اند مورد تیراندازی قرار خواهد گرفت.

خیابانهای محل عبور، برای اطمینان از عدم بمبگذاری یکبار حفر شده بودند؛ مراکز درمانی منطقه نیز کاملا مورد تفتیش قرار گرفته بود.تعداد زیادی از منازل عادی شهروندان هم تمام مدت مورد اشغال امریکاییها بود.

خبرنگاران تن به تدابیر امنیتی شدید داده بودند و بیشتر آنها در یک مکان پیش بینی شده نگهداری میشدند و نمیدانستند در اطرافشان چه میگذرد چرا که تلفنهای همراه از سوی امریکایی ها دچار اختلال شده بودند.

هنگام رسیدن بوش به فرودگاه، سرود ملی هیچ کدام از طرفین اجرا نشد و مراسم استقبال فقط این بود که بوش و عباس یکدیگر را در آغوش گرفتند.بر خلاف استقبال در فرودگاه تل آویو که علاوه بر برگزاری مراسم معمول، بیش از 50 شخصیت اسراییلی نیز حضور داشتند.