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The first 700 of some 1,500 British women and children ordered to evacuate Palestine leave by plane and train for Egypt. British authorities, preparing for military action, order other families from sections of Tel Aviv and Haifa which will be turned into fortified military areas. February 9, 1947
Nov 12, 2018 · The morning that British rule ended, May 14 1948, the Daily Mirror did its best to rouse patriotic pride: When British rule began, says the Colonial Office, Palestine was primitive and...
In February 1947 the British Government announced that responsibility for Palestine would be handed back to the UN and troops would be withdrawn from Palestine by June 1948. Agreement between Arab Palestinian and Zionist leaders had proved impossible and Britain had no support from erstwhile allies or disloyal factions in Britain.
30,000 Arabs, mostly intellectuals and members of the social elite, had fled Palestine in the months following the approval of the partition plan, undermining the social infrastructure of Palestine. A 10 May 1948 Time magazine article states: "Said one British official in Jerusalem last week: 'The whole effendi class has gone.
The Arabs, who under Khālid ibn al-Walīd had conquered Damascus in 635 ce, were forced to leave the city when they were threatened by a large Byzantine army under Theodorus Trithurius. Khālid concentrated his forces south of the Yarmūk River, and on August 20,… Read More. covenants. In covenant: Late Bronze Age developments.
May 28, 2019 · Speaker – Bernard Wasserstein. At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand over to any successor government.
In 1936, British Mandatory Palestine was in flames. In response to rising Jewish immigration and economic dominance, Arab Palestinians revolted against the British, attacking military installations and Jewish settlements. The British were scrambling for an answer.
