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Map of the military situation as of June 1st 1948 Over the next few days, contingents of four of the seven countries of the Arab League at that time, Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, and Syria, invaded the former British Mandate of Palestine and fought the Israelis.
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 maps produced by the survey have been widely used in "Palestinian refugee cartography" by scholars documenting the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight; [4] notably in Salman Abu Sitta's Atlas of Palestine and Walid Khalidi's All That Remains.
During the 1947–1949 Palestine war, or the Nakba, around 400 Palestinian Arab towns and villages were forcibly depopulated, with a majority being destroyed and left uninhabitable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Today these locations are all in Israel ; many of the locations were repopulated by Jewish immigrants , with their place names replaced with Hebrew ...
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 is a 1992 reference book edited by the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, with contributions from several other researchers, that describes 418 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depopulated in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the central component of the Nakba.
As the Palestinian writer Hisham Sharabi would observe, Palestine had "disappeared from the map". [ 24 ] As a result of the war, Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip, [ 25 ] and in September 1948, formed the All-Palestine Government in Gaza, partly as an Arab League move to limit the influence of Jordan over the Palestinian issue.
In the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine's predominantly Arab population – were expelled or fled from their homes, at first by Zionist paramilitaries, [a] and after the establishment of Israel, by its military.
This resource includes an inaccurate (but ubiquitous) map of the Palestine Mandate territory but an otherwise useful collection. Palestine maps at Palestine Remembered. Some useful high resolution maps; an unparalleled resource on Arab villages before 1948. Maps, from NIL; Geopolitical Status Map from the ARIJ, showing the Oslo accords land ...