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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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestine 1920–1948 Flag Public Seal Mandatory Palestine in 1946 Status Mandate of the United Kingdom Capital Jerusalem Common languages Arabic, English, Hebrew Religion (1922) 78% Islam 11% Judaism 10% Christianity 1% other including Baháʼí Faith, Druze faith Demonym(s) Palestinian High ...
The Palestine Post (newspaper), Nov 17, 1947, page 1. The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in November 1947 was the result of the issue passing along into the UN's hands. This then resulted in the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine between Jews and Arabs.
The majority plan was supported by 7 of the 11 members, with Iran, India and Yugoslavia voting against it, and Australia abstaining. The Zionist side accepted the Plan of Partition while the Arab side rejected both proposals. Following the report's release, the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question was appointed by the General Assembly.
Upload file; Search. Search. Appearance. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Boundaries defined in the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine:
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):
Survey of Palestine Volume I Survey of Palestine Volume II. The Survey of Palestine was a two volume survey of Mandatory Palestine prepared between December 1945 and March 1946, as evidence for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. [1] A supplement was published in June 1947. [2]