United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, or the 1947 UN Partition Plan, was a plan to split the former British colony of 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.

United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine Media

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  Map showing Jewish-owned land as of 31 December 1944, including land owned in full, shared in undivided land, and State Lands under concession. This constituted 6% of the total land area or 20% of cultivatable land, of which more than half was held by the JNF and PICA

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  Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question, document A/516, dated 25 November 1947. This was the document voted on by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947, and became known as the "United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine".

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  The 1947 meeting at the General Assembly meeting place between 1946 and 1951 in Flushing, New York

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  How UN members voted on Palestine's partition in 1947     In favour      Abstained      Against      Absent

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  Monument commemorating 1947 UN Partition Plan, Netanya