Church Leaders in Palestine Denounce Partition

The GA recommends the adoption and implementation of a Partition Plan of Palestine by a two-third majority (33 to 13 votes with 10 abstentions).

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.

The UN Security Council, in view of the reports submitted by the Palestine Commission (31 January and 16 February), calls on the council's permanent members to provide guidance and instructions to the...

Fawzi al-Qawuqji assumes command of the ALA units in central Palestine.

The Haganah finalized Plan Dalet as the Mandate’s end approached and war intensified across Palestine.

Great Britain and Transjordan sign a new treaty of alliance, replacing the one they had signed on 22 March 1946.

Security Council Resolution 43 "calls upon the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the AHC-P to make representatives available to the UN Security Council for the purpose of arranging a truce between the...