United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
1947 UN General Assembly proposal to divide British Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and Arab state
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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.
| UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) | |
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 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) |
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| Result | Adopted |