by Ilan Pappe
30 March–15 May
Coastal “clearing” operation undertaken by Hagana, expelling Palestinians from the coastal area between Haifa and Jaffa
April
1
First delivery of Czech arms arrives for Hagana; includes 4,500 rifles, 200 light machine guns, 5 million rounds of ammunition
4
Plan Dalet launched by Hagana. Villages along the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road captured and residents expelled
9
The massacre of Deir Yassin
17
Security Council resolution demands a truce
20
Palestine trusteeship plan submitted to UN by US
22
Haifa cleansed of its Palestinian population
26–30
Hagana attacks an area of East Jerusalem, and are forced to hand it over to the British. Hagana captures an area of West Jerusalem. All Palestinians in West Jerusalem expelled by the Jewish forces
May
3
Report claims that between 175,000 and 250,000
Palestinians have been forced from their homes
12–14
Czech arms arrive for Hagana
13
Arab Legion attacks Jewish communities in retaliation for Jewish military action
13
Jaffa surrenders to Hagana
14
Israel declares independence as British Mandate ends.
President Truman recognizes State of Israel
20
Count Bernadotte appointed as UN mediator in Palestine
22
UN Security resolution demands ceasefire
11 June–8 July
First Truce established
July
8–18
Fighting breaks out anew as IDF capture Lydd and Ramla
17
IDF launch an offensive but fail to capture Old City of Jerusalem
18 July–15 Oct
Second Truce established, broken by the capture of several villages by IDF
September
17
UN mediator Count Bernadotte assassinated by Jewish terrorists in Jerusalem. New UN mediator is Ralph Bunche
October
29–31
Thousands of Palestinians are expelled during Operation Hiram
November
4
UN Security Council calls for immediate truce and withdrawal of forces.
UN adopts Resolution 194 on Palestinian refugee right of return
Israel blocks return
November – 1949
IDF begins to expel villagers from settlements inside the Lebanese border
1949
24 February
Israeli–Egyptian Armistice
end February
Between 2000 and 3000 villagers expelled from the Faluja pocket by IDF
23 March
Israeli–Lebanese Armistice
3 April
Israeli–Jordanian Armistice
20 July
Syrian–Israeli Armistice
This map, showing the area of Palestine claimed by the World Zionist Organisation, was officially presented to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
The Peel Commission Partition Plan, 1937. This became the Palestine Partition Commission Plan A the following year
Palestine Partition Commission Plan B, 1938
Palestine Partition Commission Plan C, 1938
United Nations Partition Plan, adopted as General Assembly Resolution 181 (29 November 1947)
1949 Armistice Agreement
Palestinian villages depopulated, 1947–1949
TABLE 1: PALESTINE: PALESTINIAN AND JEWISH LAND OWNERSHIP IN PERCENTAGES BY DISTRICT, 19451
TABLE 2: PALESTINE: DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION BY DISTRICT SHOWING PERCENTAGES OF PALESTINIANS AND JEWS, 19463
1 The source for this table is Village Statistics (Jerusalem: Palestine Government, 1945).
2 The category of “public ownership” under the British Mandate derived from the Ottoman system of land tenure, which included state domain, & private and communal leasehold.
3 The source for this table is the Supplement to a Survey of Palestine (Jerusalem: Government Printer, June 1947).
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Index
Abbasiyya 139
Abd al-Raziq, Abu Rauf 177
Abdullah, King of Jordan 42–3, 92, 116, 118–21, 123, 128–9, 139–40, 145, 167, 176, 184, 237, 262, 267, 272, 275
and West Bank 36, 54, 116, 118, 119–21, 129, 145, 176, 191, 237
Abu al-Hija clan 106, 162, 163
Abu Ghawsh 91
Abu Hussein, Hussein, Access Denied: Palestinian Access to Land in Israel 280
Abuied, Hanna 274
Abu Kabir 139
Abu Khalid, Fawzi Muhammad Tanj 135
Abu Laben, Ahmad 206–7
Abulafya, David 207
Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, The Transformation of Palestine 279
Abu Masri, Mustafa 135
Abu Qishq gang 50
Abu Salih, Mahmud 135
Abu Salim, Al-Hajj 152
Abu Shusha 107, 109
Abu Sinan 150
Abu Sitta, Salman 273, 278, 279
Atlas of the Nakbah 274
Abu Su’ud, Shaykh Hasan 122
Abu Zurayq 107, 109
Acre 97, 100–2, 209
Afula 82, 129, 139
aggressive defence 66
Agmon, Dani 58
Agudat Israel 57
Ahihud 217
Ahmad, Qasim 67
Alexandroni Brigade 88, 127, 132, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 155
Alexandrov, Serjei 153
Allon, Yigal 5, 57, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70, 74, 77–8, 166, 193, 267
Alma 230
Aloni, Shulamit 83
Alterman, Natan 72, 197
Ambar, Shlomo 136
Amqa 150, 158, 230
