UNGA Res. 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan

Following the recommandation of the First Committee, the special session of the General Assembly decides to appoint an eleven-member United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) consisting...

Having decided to appoint a Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP ) in Resolution 106 (S-1), the UN General Assembly calls upon the inhabitants of Palestine to refrain from the threat or use of...

Official figures list 75 dead and 196 injured from terrorist activities since 1 January 1947.

LEHI-Stern Gang claims responsibility for letter bombs addressed to leading British government officials in London.

British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones announces Britain ’s decision to terminate Palestine Mandate and hand the matter over to the UN.

The Haganah sets in motion the operational stage of the confrontation with the Palestinians.

Palestinians begin a three-day strike protesting the UN Partition Plan.

Britain announces that the Palestine Mandate will be terminated on 15 May 1948, from which date the sole task of the British forces in Palestine will be to complete their withdrawal by 1 August 1948.

Transjordanian prime minister Tawfiq Abu al-Huda and the Arab Legion commander Glubb Pasha secretly meet British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin.

Church leaders in Palestine convene a joint meeting in Jerusalem, in the presence of the local and international press, to express their condemnation of the partition plan, considering it "an...