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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
A Palestinian woman was shot dead by an IDF soldier, another wounded. [183] April 30 An Israeli civilian was killed by a Palestinian; the attacker was wounded. [184] August 26 Three Palestinian civilians killed during clashes in Kalandia, West Bank. [185] September 21 An Israeli soldier was abducted and killed by Palestinian in Beit Amin. [186]
As of today, most of them still live in refugee camps and the question of how their situation should be resolved remains one of the main issues of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Due to the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, about 856,000 Jews fled or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries and most were forced to abandon their property. [58]
Operation Nachshon. Named for Nahshon. April 4–20, 1948. Haganah clearance of Arab forces blocking the road to Jerusalem. Battle of Mishmar HaEmek. —. April 5–9, 1948. Arab Liberation Army attempt to conquer the kibbutz of Mishmar HaEmek. Battle of Ramat Yohanan.