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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).
By the 1947–1949 Palestine war, the Survey of Palestine had finalized topographical maps for all of the country except the southern Negev, [19] although it had confirmed land title in less than 20% of the country, specifically in the areas of Jewish settlement. [20]
Map of Jewish settlements and roads in Palestine by 1 December 1947. Apart from on the coastline, Jewish yishuvim, or settlements, were very dispersed. Communication between the coastal area (the main area of Jewish settlements) and the peripheral settlements was by road.
English: Map showing the areas of Jewish Land Ownership in Mandatory Palestine, 1947. This information was used during the discussions ahead of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine This information was used during the discussions ahead of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine to divide the territory into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, was passed in November 1947. The 1948 Palestine war ended with the territory of Mandatory Palestine divided among the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which annexed territory on the West Bank of the Jordan River ...
English: Comparison between the boundaries in the November 29th 1947 United Nations General Assembly partition plan (Resolution 181) for the British Mandate Territory of Palestine and the eventual armistice boundaries of 1949-1950. The meaning of the map colors is as follows (a legend caption is available in template form here):
Date: 1973: Source: File:UN Partition Plan For Palestine 1947.png: Author: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency: Permission (Reusing this file)According to lib.utexas.edu here and here, the map is “produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated.”
The first triangulation-based map of Palestine, it was used as the basis for many most maps of the region until the PEF Survey in the 1870s. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] It is considered flawed, primarily since it included a significant number of incorrect or imagined details, which had been “added to the map ad libitum where the French had not been able to ...