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The Palestine mandate was approved on 22 July 1922 at a private meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at St. James Palace in London, [26] giving the British formal international recognition of the position they had held de facto in the region since the end of 1917 in Palestine and since 1920–21 in Transjordan. [26]
The Survey of Palestine was the government department responsible for the survey and mapping of Palestine during the British mandate period. The survey department was established in 1920 in Jaffa , and moved to the outskirts of Tel Aviv in 1931. [ 1 ]
A 1930 protest in Jerusalem against the British Mandate by Arab women. The sign reads "No dialogue, no negotiations until termination of the Mandate." Under the British Mandate, the office of "Mufti of Jerusalem", traditionally limited in authority and geographical scope, was refashioned into that of "Grand Mufti of Palestine".
The Arab League threatened to take military measures to prevent the partition of Palestine and to ensure the national rights of the Palestinian Arab population. One day before the expiration of the British Mandate for Palestine, on 14 May 1948, Israel declared its independence within the borders of the Jewish State set out in the Partition Plan.
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.
British Mandate of Palestine or Palestine Mandate most often refers to: Mandate for Palestine, a League of Nations mandate under which the British controlled an area which included Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan; Mandatory Palestine, the territory and its history between 1920 and 1948
The districts and sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of the districts varied over time, as did their subdivision into sub-districts.
Categories covering the modern history of Palestine (region) Ottoman Palestine: Mandatory Palestine 1920–1948 Israel 1948–present West Bank under Jordan: West Bank Governorate 1948–1967 Gaza Strip under Egypt: All-Palestine Protectorate 1948–1959 Egyptian administration 1959–1967 : Israeli Military Governorate 1967–1981