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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 ...
Many scholarly studies and daily newspaper essays, as well as some 1948 Jewish war veterans' memoirs have begun presenting the more balanced narrative (at times called the "post-Zionist" view). According to this narrative, some Palestinians left willingly (due to calls of Arab or their leadership to partially leave, fear, and societal collapse ...
March 11, 1948 13 13 Jews killed [1] N/A March 14, 1948 7 7 Jews killed near Faluja [1] N/A March 14, 1948 5 4 Arabs, 1 Jew killed in Tiberias [1] N/A March 18, 1948 9 5 Britons, 4 Jews killed in convoy near Acre [1] N/A March 20, 1948 7 7 Jews killed at Ein Harod [1] N/A March 21, 1948 6 6 Jews killed on Rosh Pinna-Safed road [1] N/A March 22 ...
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 ...
380,000± by 15 May 1948 according to Ilan Pappe (in 1994) [28] 335,000 by 5 June 1948 according to Yossef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund. [29] 391,000 by 1 June 1948 according to a report by the Haganah's intelligence service (239,000 from the UN-ascribed Jewish state.) [10] 200,000 by the mid-June 1948 according to Emil Ghoury. [10]
Israel has been involved in a number of wars and large-scale military operations, including: 1948 Arab–Israeli War (November 1947 – July 1949) – Started as 6 months of civil war between Jewish and Arab militias when the mandate period in Palestine was ending and turned into a regular war after the establishment of Israel and the intervention of several Arab armies.
After about 30 years of conflict in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs, the British authorities and Palestinian Jews, the British decided in February 1947 to terminate the Mandate and, on 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (II) recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan of partition of Palestine.
During and after the war about 711,000 Palestinian Arabs became displaced and refugees. 800,000–1,000,000 Jews living in Muslim countries left or were expelled during or after the war. February 24 Armistice signed with Egypt .