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The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations to partition Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.Drafted by the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181 (II). [1]
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 ...
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 ...
In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was voted for. The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted parts of the plan, while Arab leaders refused it. This triggered the 1947–1949 Palestine war and led, in 1948, to the establishment of the state of Israel on a part of Mandate Palestine as the Mandate came to an end.
Map showing the 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine in UNGA Res. 181(II). Following World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, the General Assembly resolved [4] that a Special Committee be created "to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine."
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: 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 ]
The United Nations Palestine Commission was created by United Nations Resolution 181. [1] It was responsible for implementing the UN Partition Plan of Palestine and acting as the Provisional Government of Palestine. [2] The 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and a refusal by the British government to impose a scheme which was not ...