1948 Arab-Israeli War - First phase: November 29 1947 - April 1 1948

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War is referred to as the "War of Independence" (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות) or as the "War of Liberation" (Hebrew: מלחמת השחרור) by Israelis. For Palestinians, the war marked the beginning of the events referred to as "The Catastrophe" ("al Nakba," Arabic: النكبة ). It was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It established the state of Israel as an independent state, dividing the remaining areas of the British Mandate of Palestine into areas co ...

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• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Background
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - The Great Arab Revolt and Its Aftermath
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Yishuv/British Security and Intelligence Collaboration
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - The End of Colonial Rule
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Amin al-Husayni
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Phases of the War
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - First phase: November 29 1947 - April 1 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Second phase: April 1 1948 - May 15 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Third phase: May 15 1948 - June 11 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - First truce: June 11 1948 - July 8 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Fourth phase: July 8 1948 - July 18 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Second truce: July 18 1948 - October 15 1948
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Fifth phase: October 15 1948 - July 20 1949
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Aftermath
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - 1949 Armistice Agreements
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Casualties
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Demographic outcome
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Footnotes

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1948 Arab-Israeli War - First phase: November 29 1947 - April 1 1948. In the twelve days following the UN decision 79 jews were killed by Palestinians, on Nov 30 seven were killed in an attack on a Jerusalem bound bus, and on Dec 2, a mob of Palestinians looted jewish-owned shops in Jerusalem and killed two. The British, who were responible for law and order did not always enforce it, sometimes they would disarm Jewish defense brigades who would then be attacked by Palestinians. The Jews defended themselves and s ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War - First phase: November 29 1947 - April 1 1948. Right after the UN partition plan was approved, joint Jordanian, Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi troops invaded Palestine, which Israel, the United States, the Soviet Union, and UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie called illegal aggression. The British Army frequently intervened, but as the end of British involvement in Palestine drew nearer and attacks on them by Irgun and Lehi increased, their intervention grew steadily more inconsistent and ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War - 1949 Armistice Agreements. In 1949, Israel signed separate armistices with Egypt on February 24, Lebanon on March 23, Transjordan on April 3, and Syria on July 20. Israel was generally able to create its own borders, comprising 78 percent of Mandatory Palestine, 50 percent more than the UN partition proposal allotted it. These cease-fire lines were known afterwards as the "Green Line". The Gaza Strip and the West Bank were occupied by Egypt and Transjordan respectively. < ...

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Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the League of Nations granted the British and the French temporary colonial administration over former Ottoman provinces south of present day Turkey. These regions had been called vilayets under the Ottomans, but were referred to as mandates at the time, after the process that allocated them. The two powers drew arbitrary borders, dividing the area into four sections. Three of these -- Iraq, ...

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