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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.
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 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).
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 ...
17 March 1947 – The Jewish Agency Press Office at 5 Ben Yehuda Street is bombed by John Hanson (Jack) May, a Palestine Police officer, in retribution for the deaths of colleagues and in response to a Palestine Post article by American commentator Ben Hecht, who wrote that he had "a little holiday in (his) heart when he heard of each British ...
April 9, 1948 107 100-254 Arabs killed [50] [51] [52] Hadassah medical convoy massacre: April 13, 1948 79 78 Jews (nurses, doctors, and patients) and one British soldier killed [53] [54] Ein al Zeitun massacre: May 3, 1948 55 37–70 Arab prisoners Kfar Etzion massacre: May 13, 1948 129 127–157 Jews killed [1] Abu Shusha massacre: May 13–14 ...
8 December - The Battle of Tikvah: Hasan Salama and 400 trained soldiers of the Army of the Holy War attack a dense area on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and are repelled by 100 Jewish defenders. The first military engagement of the Mandate Civil War. 100 Arab soldiers killed, and four Jews (three civilians). [2]
Mandatory Palestine [a] [5] was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant . [ 6 ]