Drive the core of hostile Palestinians to cause tragedy? (5)
I believe the answer is:
drama
'tragedy?' is the definition.
(tragedy is a kind of drama)
'drive the core of hostile palestinians' is the wordplay.
'drive' becomes 'dr' (abbreviation used in road names).
'the core of hostile palestinians' becomes 'ama' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dr'+'ama'='DRAMA'
'to cause' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for drama that I've seen before include "Plays as branch of literature" , "shared interest of 6 & 12 [VERDI & SHAKESPEARE]" , "Play; exciting situation" , "Theatre or radio play" , "High emotion" .)