Transjordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

Security Council Resolution 50 calls upon all Governments and authorities concerned "to order a cessation of all acts of armed force for a period of four weeks" and instructs the UN Mediator in...

Jordan appoints a member of the AHC-P, Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi, as the military governor of the Arab section of Jerusalem.

The new Israeli government enacts the Abandoned Areas Ordinance that aims at controlling the properties of Palestinians who were expelled or had fled because of the fighting.

Count Bernadotte proposes the following plan to the Arab and Jewish authorities: Palestine and Transjordan to form a Union comprising two states, one Arab and one Jewish; the two states to form an...

The Arab section of the Intelligence Service of the new state of Israel submits a report entitled “Migration of Eretz Yisrael Arabs between December 1, 1947, and June 1, 1948.” The report enumerates...

Security Council Resolution 53 addresses an urgent appeal to the interested parties to accept in principle the prolongation of the truce.

The political committee of the Arab League decides to establish a provisional civil administration in those parts of Palestine held by the Arab armies.

Security Council Resolution 54 determines "that the situation in Palestine constitutes a threat to the peace," "orders the Governments and authorities concerned" to issue "cease-fire orders to their...

In his capacity as defense minister, David Ben-Gurion adopts two military proclamations.

Constantine Zurayk published The Meaning of the Nakba in Beirut, a landmark early account of the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.