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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).
The meaning of the map colors is as follows (a legend caption is available in template form here): Blue = area assigned to a Jewish state in the original UN partition plan, and within the 1949 Israel armistice lines. Green = area assigned to an Arab state in the original UN partition plan, and controlled by Egypt or Jordan from 1949-1967.
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.
Date: 1973: Source: File:UN Partition Plan For Palestine 1947.png: Author: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency: Permission (Reusing this file)According to lib.utexas.edu here and here, the map is “produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated.”
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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. [4]
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 amount of surveyed land by 1947; the area corresponds closely to the land allotted to the proposed "Jewish State" in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. 1944 maps (1:250,000) from the Survey Department of Palestine