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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).
Whether the United Nations, or any of its Member States, is competent to enforce, or recommend the enforcement of, any proposal concerning the constitution and future government of Palestine, in particular, any plan of partition which is contrary to the wishes, or adopted without the consent, of the inhabitants of Palestine.
During the British mandate period, numerous plans of partition of Palestine were proposed but without the agreement of all parties. In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was voted for. The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted parts of the plan, while Arab leaders refused it.
Arab and Jewish settlers in the British-controlled territory had fought for the land since 1929. At the end of World War II, the U.S. advocated for the Zionist movement, and the U.N. soon voted to ...
The United Nations Palestine Commission was created by United Nations Resolution 181. [1] It was responsible for implementing the UN Partition Plan of Palestine and acting as the Provisional Government of Palestine. [ 2 ]
These events were the decisive factors that forced Britain to announce their desire to terminate the Palestine Mandate and place the Question of Palestine before the United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations. The UN created UNSCOP (the UN Special Committee on Palestine) on 15 May 1947, with representatives from 11 countries. UNSCOP ...
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 ...
The UN estimates that there were about 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1950. ... dating back to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, and many nations say that it is the only way out of the conflict ...