United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

UN General Assembly
Resolution 181 (II)
UN General Assembly; Resolution 181 (II)
	UNSCOP (3 September 1947; see green line) and UN Ad Hoc Committee (25 November 1947) partition plans. The UN Ad Hoc Committee proposal was voted on in the resolution.
Date	29 November 1947
Meeting no.	128
Code	A/RES/181(II) (Document)
Voting summary	33 voted for; 13 voted against; 10 abstained;
Result	Adopted

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, or the 1947 UN Partition Plan, was a plan to split British Mandatory Palestine into two different countries, adopted on 29 November 1947. It would have been split into six different regions, three belonging to the Palestinians and three to the Israelis, and Jerusalem would have been an international city shared by both countries. The Israelis accepted the plan, but the Palestinians rejected it. The plan was never put into place and this led to the 1947-1949 Palestine War.

Nakba
Background	Mandatory Palestine Israeli Declaration of Independence Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine New Historians Palestine Plan Dalet 1947 partition plan
Main articles	1947–1949 Palestine war 1947–1948 civil war 1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight causes UNRWA Nakba Day Nakba denial Palestine refugee camps Palestinian refugee Palestinian right of return Present absentee Transfer Committee Resolution 194
Key incidents	Battle of Haifa Deir Yassin massacre Expulsion from Lydda and Ramle
Notable writers	Aref al-Aref Yoav Gelber Efraim Karsh Walid Khalidi Nur Masalha Benny Morris Ilan Pappé Tom Segev Avraham Sela Avi Shlaim The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem
Related categories/lists	Villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus
Related templates	Palestinians Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Gaza–Israel conflict
The Holocaust and the Nakba

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