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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Israel has been involved in a number of wars and large-scale military operations, including: 1948 Arab–Israeli War (November 1947 – July 1949) – Started as 6 months of civil war between Jewish and Arab militias when the mandate period in Palestine was ending and turned into a regular war after the establishment of Israel and the intervention of several Arab armies.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948. Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts India Pakistan: 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 [2] or 1947 [3] 1949 Safi Rebellion [2] [3 ...
The termination of the British mandate over Palestine and the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked a full-scale war (1948 Arab–Israeli War) which erupted after May 14, 1948. On 15–16 May, the four armies of Jordan , Syria, Egypt and Iraq [ 49 ] invaded/intervened in what had been the area of the British Mandate [ 20 ] followed not ...
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]
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.