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The war had two main phases, the first being the 1947–1948 civil war, which began on 30 November 1947, [22] a day after the United Nations voted to adopt the Partition Plan for Palestine, which planned for the division of the territory into Jewish and Arab sovereign states. During this period the British still maintained a declining rule over ...
Jordan. United Kingdom. Mandatory Palestine. The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine.
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war of separate states with the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight, and ...
Palestine. Mandatory Palestine[a][4] was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant. [5]
Nakba. In the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine 's predominantly Arab population – were expelled or fled from their homes, at first by Zionist paramilitaries, [a] and after the establishment of Israel, by its military. [b] The expulsion and flight was a central component of the ...
On 15 May 1948, following the Israeli Declaration of Independence the previous day, the armies of a number of Arab countries invaded what had just ceased to be Mandatory Palestine, turning the conflict into the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The yishuv ( now officially called Israel) suffered between 5,700 and 5,800 casualties. [ 4 ]
The Battle for Jerusalem took place during the 1947–1948 civil war phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It saw Jewish and Arab militias in Mandatory Palestine, and later the militaries of Israel and Transjordan, fight for control over the city of Jerusalem. Under the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, Jerusalem was to be a ...
t. e. During the 1948 Palestine war in which the State of Israel was established, around 700,000 [fn 1] Palestinian Arabs, or 85% of the total population of the territory Israel captured, were expelled or fled from their homes. [1] The causes of this mass displacement have been a matter of dispute, though today most scholars consider that the ...