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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).
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian question, document A/516, dated 25 November 1947. This was the document voted on by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947, and became known as the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was passed on 29 November 1947; this envisaged the creation of separate Jewish and Arab states operating under economic union, and with Jerusalem transferred to UN trusteeship. [243] Two weeks later, Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones announced that the British Mandate would terminate on 15 ...
Meetings of UNSCOP at YMCA in Jerusalem (seated at far left, David Ben-Gurion) UNSCOP members visiting Haifa (July 18, 1947). The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created on 15 May 1947 [1] [2] in response to a United Kingdom government request that the General Assembly "make recommendations under article 10 of the Charter, concerning the future government of Palestine".
Map showing the 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine in UNGA Res. 181(II). Following World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, the General Assembly resolved [4] that a Special Committee be created "to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine."
GENEVA (AP) — The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” the United Nations reported Thursday, with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a ...
UN Security Council Chamber in New York City, United States. From 1967 to 1989 the United Nations Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict, with many concerning the Palestinians; Since 2012, a number of resolutions were issued dealing directly with the modern State of Palestine.
Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for Palestinian refugees, a move that could have devastating consequences ...