Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
9 April: 123 killed 300 wounded [ 3 ] 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. [ 4 ]
During the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that followed, around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, out of approximately 1,200,000 Arabs living in former British Mandate of Palestine, a displacement known to Palestinians as the Nakba. In 1951, the UN Conciliation ...
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 ...
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 ...
8 December - The Battle of Tikvah: Hasan Salama and 400 trained soldiers of the Army of the Holy War attack a dense area on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and are repelled by 100 Jewish defenders. The first military engagement of the Mandate Civil War. 100 Arab soldiers killed, and four Jews (three civilians). [2]
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 ]
Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine and the decolonisation of Asia. Palestine Railway K class 2-8-4T steam locomotive and freight train derailed from the Jaffa and Jerusalem line after being sabotaged by Jewish insurgents in 1946. Date. 1 February 1944 – 14 May 1948.
A politically charged new thriller in theaters now, Civil War is a film that's been courting some controversy since its South by Southwest premiere in March 2024.From writer-director Alex Garland ...