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1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine

Civil War in Palestine (1947–48)
Part of the 1948 Palestine War
Katamon.jpg
Jewish soldiers at Katamon, Jerusalem.
Date 30 November 1947 – 14 May 1948
(5 months and 2 weeks)
Location Mandatory Palestine
Result
Belligerents

Jews of Palestine

Arabs of Palestine

Transjordan

 United Kingdom

Commanders and leaders
David Ben-Gurion
Yaakov Dori
Yigael Yadin
Yigal Allon
Menachem Begin
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni 
Mandatory Palestine Gordon MacMillan
Strength
15,000 (start)
35,000 (end)
A few thousands ~70,000
Casualties and losses
1 April : 895
15 May : ~ 2,000
1 April : 991 125 dead
less than 300 injured
1948 Palestinian exodus
Man see school nakba.jpg

Main articles
1948 Palestinian exodus


1947–48 civil war
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948 Palestine war
Causes of the exodus
Nakba Day
Palestinian refugee
Palestine refugee camps
Palestinian right of return
Palestinian return to Israel
Present absentee
Transfer Committee
Resolution 194

Background
Mandatory Palestine
Israeli Declaration of Independence
Israeli–Palestinian conflict history
New Historians
Palestine · Plan Dalet
1947 partition plan · UNRWA

Key incidents
Battle of Haifa
Deir Yassin massacre
Exodus from Lydda and Ramle

Notable writers
Aref al-Aref · Yoav Gelber
Efraim Karsh · Walid Khalidi
Nur-eldeen Masalha · Benny Morris
Ilan Pappé · Tom Segev
Avraham Sela · Avi Shlaim

Related categories/lists
List of depopulated villages

Related templates



Jews of Palestine

Arabs of Palestine

Transjordan

 United Kingdom

The 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1948 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.

During the civil war, the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine clashed (the latter supported by the Arab Liberation Army) while the British, who had the obligation to maintain order, organized their withdrawal and intervened only on an occasional basis.

When the British Mandate of Palestine expired on 14 May 1948, and with the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, the surrounding Arab states, Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq and Syria invaded what had just ceased to be Mandatory Palestine, and immediately attacked Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements. The conflict then turned into the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.


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