1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption of the Partition Plan for Palestine.
Aftermath of the car bomb attack on the Ben Yehuda St., which killed 53 and injured many more.
Arab volunteers fighting in Palestine in 1947
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, prominent military leader during the Palestinian Civil War.
An Arab road block, at the main road to Jerusalem
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. During the war, the British withdrew from Palestine, Zionist forces conquered territory and established the State of Israel, and over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled. It was the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–Israeli conflict.
Arab fighters in front of a burning Haganah armoured supply truck near the city of Jerusalem (c. 1948)
Fawzi al-Qawuqji (third from the right) in 1936
Aftermath of the Ben Yehuda Street bombing, February 1948
Destroyed buildings in the Manshiya quarter of Jaffa, May 1948
