9/23/2023 0 Comments Soon after world war ii, armed conflicts broke out among jewish and arab ethnic groups inĪfter the war, the former territory of the mandate was divided between the State of Israel, which captured about 78% of it, the Kingdom of Jordan (then known as Transjordan), which captured and later annexed the area that became the West Bank, and Egypt, which captured the Gaza Strip, a coastal territory on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in which the Arab League established the All-Palestine Government. During the war, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were displaced. In May 1948, the State of Israel was established by the Jewish Yishuv, its creation having been declared on the last day of the Mandate. Beforehand, the area had been part of the Ottoman Empire. During the war, the British terminated the Mandate and withdrew, ending a period of rule which began in 1917, during the First World War. It is the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–Israeli conflict. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות, Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut) and in Arabic as a central component of the Nakba ( Arabic: النَّكْبَة, lit.'the disaster'). The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. Iraq: 3,000 initially, rising to 15,000–18,000Ħ,080 killed (about 4,074 troops and 2,000 civilians) īetween +5,000 and 20,000 (including civilians) among which 4,000 soldiers for Egypt, Jordan and Syria ġ5,000 Arab dead and 25,000 wounded (estimate) All-Palestine Protectorate (after 22 September 1948).Syrian foothold established to the north and south of the Sea of Galilee.Annexation of the West Bank by Jordan (including East Jerusalem).Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt and subsequent establishment of the All-Palestine Government as an Egyptian client.Establishment of the State of Israel beyond the borders proposed by the United Nations Partition Plan. Exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries.Exodus of Palestinian Arabs from modern Israel. Mandatory Palestine (former), Sinai Peninsula, southern Lebanon
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