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The 1948 Palestine war [a] was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, ... On 22 December, large IDF forces started Operation Horev.
[6] [7] About 250,000–300,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, before the termination of the British Mandate on 14 May 1948. The desire to prevent the collapse of the Palestinians and to avoid more refugees were some of the reasons for the entry of the Arab League into the country ...
(December 22, 1948 – January 7, 1949) Removal by Israel of Egyptian presence in the Negev (except the Gaza Strip), and operations in the Sinai peninsula Battle of Hill 86 — December 22–23, 1948 Israeli failure to capture the strategic Hill 86 in the Gaza Strip: Battle of Bir Thamila — December 25–26, 1948
In December of 1948, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 194, recognising that Palestinian people “who want to return to their homes and live in peace with their neighbours should be given ...
In his book, The Arab–Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, Karsh wrote that the Arab Higher Committee played a key part in the exoduses from Haifa, Tiberias, and Jaffa. [107] [better source needed] A 3 May 1948 Time magazine article attributed the exodus from the city of Haifa to fear, Arab orders to leave and a Jewish assault. [159]
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.
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine. [4]
2 December 2, 1948 (Thursday) 3 December 3, 1948 ... A meeting of Palestinian leaders in Jericho proclaimed King Abdullah of Trans ... The war film Command Decision ...