You will find answers on Al Jazeera and Momdoweiss.
Yes, there were fights there even before 1948. Haganah and Irgun was the terrorist group of Israel, which later became IDF. They also bombed British on the region to make pressure to allow Britain to bring more Jewish. Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah
In 1946 Irgut bombed a British hotel and killed 94 people. In Israel there's a sign calling them "Hebrew Resistance Movement".
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Also if you read the Old Testament, you will see that Moses (leader of Israel) people killed many of the inhabitants of where they passed (Deuteronomy 20:16). In one night Moses also killed 3000 of his people for adoring a cow. Source: Exodus 32:28
Read the Old Testament as not something from God, but as a diary of the Israeli tribe. When they say."God told Moses to kill someone", read "Israeli political leader decide to kill someone and disguised it as an act from God" (today they might replace "God" by "Democracy"
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2020%3A16&version=NIV
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/9/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide
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