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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 .
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 ...
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]
On November 30, 1947, an Egged bus on its way to Jerusalem from Netanya was attacked by Arab militants, followed by an attack on another bus, killing seven Jews. It was the first attack in the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine following the UN's adoption of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which took place the day before. [1]
Palestine Police Force. 1947 1948 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine. Part of the 1948 Palestine war. Jews of Palestine. Haganah; Irgun; Lehi; Arabs of Palestine. Army of the Holy War; Arab Liberation Army; 1948 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict Israel Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria HWA
It was drawn inside the Arab state in the defunct United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. [2] As such, Nitzanim was isolated after December 31, 1947. [3] It was attacked many times in the first six months of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine by local irregulars.
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 ...
As the war ended, Amin al-Husayni escaped to Egypt, and moved to Lebanon in 1959; he died in Beirut on 4 July 1974. In November 1945 the Arab League re-established the Arab Higher Committee as the supreme executive body of Palestinian Arabs in the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine. The committee was immediately recognised by the ...