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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1948 Arab–Israeli War Part of the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict From top to bottom, left to right: John Bagot Glubb, commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion with soldiers in Ramallah Jewish soldiers raising the Israeli flag at the end of the war Israeli soldier with ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arab–Israeli conflict The main parties in the Arab–Israeli conflict Israel Palestinian territories Egypt Jordan Lebanon Syria Iraq Date Late 19th / early 20th century – present Main phase: c. 15 May 1948 – ongoing (76 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location Middle East Status Ongoing ...
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.
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.
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)
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the United Nations brokered a ceasefire between the conflict parties, starting on 11 June 1948. The Arab high command consequently sought a way to capture a number of Israeli settlements before the truce would come to effect, with the aim of improving its negotiating position.
October 24–29, 1948 Israeli expulsion of Fawzi al-Qawuqji's Arab Liberation Army and capture of the Galilee: Jerusalem front: Operation Ha-Har: lit. The Mountain October 19–22, 1948 Israeli operation to extend the Jerusalem Corridor to the south [14] Operation Yekev: lit. Winery October 19–21, 1948