This was the sublink to your own link Franky....
Like I said before....Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people....Palestinians are the victims in this never ending search for a dream that "the earth will be cleansed of Jews"....
Funny how during the Palestinian war, Palestinians and Jews mirror the tragedy as jews were displaced from most Arab countries....Palestinians can ask their arab brothers..."WTF happened?"
The war had two main phases, the first being the
1947–1948 civil war, which began on 30 November 1947,
[19] a day after
the United Nations voted to adopt the Partition Plan for Palestine, which divided the territory into Jewish and Arab sovereign states, and an international Jerusalem (
UN Resolution 181).
Partition was accepted by the Jewish leadership, but rejected by Palestinian Arab leaders and the Arab states.
[20] This phase of the war is described by historians as the
"civil", "ethnic" or "intercommunal" war, as
it was fought mainly between Jewish and Palestinian Arab militias, supported by the Arab Liberation Army and the surrounding Arab states. Characterised by
guerrilla warfare and
terrorism, it escalated at the end of March 1948 when the Jews went on the offensive and concluded with their defeating the Palestinians in major campaigns and battles, establishing clear frontlines. During this period the British still maintained a declining rule over Palestine and occasionally intervened in the violence.
[21][22]
The British terminated the Mandate at midnight at the end of 14 May 1948. On that day, the last remaining British troops and personnel departed the city of
Haifa and the Jewish leadership in Palestine
declared the establishment of the State of Israel.
This was followed the next day by the invasion of Palestine by the surrounding Arab armies and expeditionary forces.
The invasion marked the beginning of the second phase of the war, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The Egyptians advanced on the southern coastal strip and were halted near Ashdod; the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi forces captured the central highlands of Palestine. Syria and Lebanon fought several skirmishes with the Israeli forces in the north. The Jewish militias, organised into the
Israel Defense Forces, managed to halt the Arab forces. The following months saw fierce fighting between the IDF and the Arab armies, which were being slowly pushed back. The Jordanian and Iraqi armies managed to maintain control over most of the central highlands of Palestine and capture East Jerusalem, including the Old City. Egypt's occupation zone was limited to the
Gaza Strip and a small pocket surrounded by Israeli forces at
Al-Faluja. In October and December 1948, Israeli forces crossed into Lebanese territory and pushed into Egypt's
Sinai Peninsula, encircling the Egyptian forces near
Gaza City. The last military activity happened in March 1949, when Israeli forces captured the
Negev desert and reached the
Red Sea. In 1949, Israel signed separate
armistices with Egypt on 24 February, Lebanon on 23 March, Transjordan on 3 April, and Syria on 20 July. During this period the flight and expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs continued
During the war, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were displaced and
most of their urban areas were destroyed.
Many Palestinian Arabs ended up stateless, displaced either to the Palestinian territories captured by Egypt and Jordan or to the surrounding Arab states; many of them, as well as their descendants, remain stateless and in refugee camps.
In the three years following the war, about 700,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Europe and Arab lands,
with one third of them having left or been expelled from their countries of residence in the Middle East.
[23][24][25] These refugees were absorbed into Israel in the
One Million Plan.