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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 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.
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.”
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]
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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.
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."