All-Palestine Protectorate
| All-Palestine Protectorate | ||||||||||
| حكومة عموم فلسطين | ||||||||||
|
Partial recognition Client state of the Kingdom of Egypt and later Egypt |
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
| Capital |
Jerusalem (claimed) Gaza City (de facto) Cairo (de facto) |
|||||||||
| Languages | Arabic | |||||||||
| Government | Republic | |||||||||
| President | ||||||||||
| • | 1948 | Hajj Amin al-Husseini | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||
| • | 1948 | Ahmed Hilmi Pasha | ||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | |||||||||
| • | Established | 22 September 1948 | ||||||||
| • | 1949 Armistice | 1949 | ||||||||
| • | Arab League places Gaza Strip under official aegis of Egypt | 1952 | ||||||||
| • | Suez Crisis | 1956–1957 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1959 | ||||||||
|
||||||||||
| Today part of |
 Gaza Strip
|
|||||||||
The All-Palestine Protectorate, or simply All-Palestine, also known as Gaza Protectorate and Gaza Strip, was a short-living client state with limited recognition, corresponding to the area of modern Gaza Strip, which was captured by the Kingdom of Egypt during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and allowed to run as a protectorate under All-Palestine Government. The Protectorate was declared on September 1948 in the Gaza city and All-Palestine Government was formed. The Prime Minister of the Gaza-seated administration was Ahmed Hilmi Pasha, and the President was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, former chairman of the Arab Higher Committee. In December 1948, just three months after declaration, the All-Palestine Government was relocated to Cairo and was never allowed to return to Gaza, making it a government in exile. With further resolution of the Arab League to put Gaza Strip under official protectorate of Egypt, All-Palestine Government was gradually stripped of authority, until it was finally dissolved in 1959, being legally merged into the United Arab Republic, but de facto turning Gaza into military occupation area of Egypt.
Ernest A. Gross, a senior U.S. State Department legal adviser, authored a memorandum for the United States government titled Recognition of New States and Governments in Palestine, dated 11 May 1948. He expressed the view that "The Arab and Jewish communities will be legally entitled on May 15, 1948 (the date of expiry of the British Mandate) to proclaim states and organize governments in the areas of Palestine occupied by the respective communities." Gross also said "the law of nations recognizes an inherent right of people lacking the agencies and institutions of social and political control to organize a state and operate a government."
...
Wikipedia