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1948 Palestinian declaration of independence. The 1948 Palestinian declaration of independence was proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council convened in Gaza City on 1 October 1948. The declaration was recognized by Arab countries. The Arab League encouraged its member states to recognize the Palestinian government in Gaza.
The 1948 War came as the culmination of 30 years of friction between Jews and Arabs during the period of British rule of Palestine when, under the terms of the League of Nations mandate held by the British, conditions intended to lead to the creation of a Jewish National Home in the area were created.
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 ...
9 April: 991 killed [2] 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.
The Palestinian Declaration of Independence formally established the State of Palestine, and was written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and proclaimed by Yasser Arafat on 15 November 1988 (5 Rabiʽ al-Thani 1409) in Algiers, Algeria. It had previously [1] been adopted by the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative body of the ...
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 ...
The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. [1][2][3][4] The Balfour Declaration of 1917, issued by the British government ...
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 ...