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During the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that followed, around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, out of approximately 1,200,000 Arabs living in former British Mandate of Palestine, a displacement known to Palestinians as the Nakba. In 1951, the UN Conciliation ...
This is a list of wars and other major military engagements involving Israel.Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring Arab states, two major Palestinian Arab uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada (see Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and a broad series of other armed engagements rooted in the ...
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–49), known as the "War of Independence" by Israelis and al-Nakba ("the Catastrophe") by Palestinians, began after the UN Partition Plan and the subsequent 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in November 1947. The plan proposed the establishment of Arab and Jewish states in Palestine.
December 22–23, 1948 Israeli failure to capture the strategic Hill 86 in the Gaza Strip: Battle of Bir Thamila — December 25–26, 1948 Israeli capture of Bir Thamila and its surroundings, on its way to the Sinai Battle of al-Auja — December 25–27, 1948 Israeli capture of Auja al-Hafir, a village bordering Egypt Battles of the Sinai —
Jewish jubilation met with Arab hostility and a civil war duly erupted. The first Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion officially proclaims the state of Israel in Tel Aviv in 1948 (AFP/Getty)
1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War is a non-fiction work written by Israeli historian Benny Morris.It was published by Yale University Press in 2008. [1] The author is otherwise known for multiple other books such as Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and Righteous Victims, being a member of the group called the 'new historians' and the individual who most popularized the term.
It was the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–Israeli conflict. 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 ...
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War By Benny Morris ... and 1948 — the war that began all Arab-Israeli wars — is a logical starting date: the moment Israel was created, followed by ...