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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).
On 22 October the Ad Hoc Committee formed two subcommittees. Subcommittee 1 (chaired by Ksawery Pruszyński [5]) comprised nine members ( United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Uruguay, Guatemala, Jewish Agency for Palestine) [6] and was responsible for producing a plan of implementation of the UNSCOP majority report; and subcommittee 2 (chaired by ...
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 acceptable to both Arabs and Jews in Palestine prevented the Commission from fulfilling its ...
On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly, voting 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions, adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union as Resolution 181 (II), [73] [74] while making some adjustments to the boundaries between the two states proposed by it. The division was to take ...
The UN estimates that there were about 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1950. ... dating back to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, and many nations say that it is the only way out of the conflict ...
Meetings of UNSCOP at YMCA in Jerusalem (seated at far left, David Ben-Gurion) UNSCOP members visiting Haifa (July 18, 1947). The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created on 15 May 1947 [1] [2] in response to a United Kingdom government request that the General Assembly "make recommendations under article 10 of the Charter, concerning the future government of Palestine".
On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending "to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union", (a slightly amended version ...
First, a brief history: Under the 1947 United Nations partition plan, Gaza was to be part of a new Palestinian state that also included the West Bank. Israel accepted the plan and declared ...