1948: Independence

- 1948 Arab Refugees
- 1948-1949 Arab Refugees’ Hatred of Egyptians, not Jews
- 1948 Khaled al-Azm on Arab Refugee Situation
- 1948 Political Arab Leaders behind Arab Refugee Situation
- 1948 Defeat of Arabs in 1948 Came as a Surprise for the Arab World
- January 1, 1948 Train robbed of Foodstuffs between Lydda and Tel Aviv
- January 2, 1948 Illegal Immigration to Palestine
- January 5, 1948 Bomb Thrown at Jewish School, Beirut
- January 10, 1948 Arab Refugees
- January 10, 1948 Arabs Set for “Any Price” United Press, NY Times
- January 11, 1948 Jews in Cairo Arrested to Prevent of “Zionist crimes”
- January 14, 1948 Fawzi Bey al Kaukji, Volunteer Army of the Arab Nations
- January 14, 1948 Mediation Offer made from Pakistan
- January 14, 1948 Massacre Report Perturbs Gandhi
- January 16, 1948 Palestine Liberation Army
- January 18, 1948 Attack on Convoy on Jaffa Road
- January 19, 1948 United Nations Sponsored Peace Conference
- January 19, 1948 Training of the Arab Liberation Army
- January 27, 1948 Convoy of Jewish Trucks Attacked Near Ein Gazala
- January 29, 1948 Suleiman Abdul Bey, the Mayor of Nablus
- January 30, 1948 Arrival of Arab Bands from Outside of Palestine
- February 5, 1948 Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Visits Damascus
- February 13, 1948 Israel Offers Peace, the Grand Mufti Rejects
- February 16, 1948 Security Situation in Jerusalem
- February 16, 1948 Murder in Haifa
- February 16, 1948 Mutilation of Jewish Bodies
- February 22, 1948 Jerusalem’s Latest Scene of Terrorism
- February 22, 1948 Arabs Request Trained Street-Fighters from Syria
- February 27, 1948 Arab Leaders Oppose Israel
- February 27, 1948 Colonel Abdul Wahab Bey Arrives at Jaffa
- March 1948 British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
- March 1948 British Granted Concession to Iraq Petrol Company
- March 4, 1948 Jewish Force Ambushed, Arabs Kill 17
- March 4, 1948 Arab League’s Palestine Committee
- March 5, 1948 Arab Liberation Army
- March 6, 1948 Heavy Arab Artillery Moved into Palestine via Syria
- March 7, 1948 Field Commander of PLA Enters Palestine from Syria
- March 9, 1948 Volunteers Invited to Join Arab Forces in Haifa Region
- March 9, 1948 Peace Project for Jerusalem
- March 11, 1948 Wing of the Jewish Agency Headquarters Blown Up
- March 11, 1948 Thirteen Murdered Outside the Jewish Agency Building
- March 11, 1948 Small-Scale Guerrilla Raids by Arabs
- March 12, 1948 British Reveal Non-Arab Volunteers in Palestine
- March 12, 1948 Attack on the Jerusalem-Jaffa Road
- March 13, 1948 Arab Attack on Maccabi Quarter, Tel Aviv
- March 14, 1948 TWA Plane Leaving Lydda Fired On
- March 15, 1948 Support for Jihad by Pakistani Moslem Leaders
- March 16, 1948 Palestinian Arab Higher Committee Representative Isa Nakleh
- March 17, 1948 Arab Military Commander’s Threats
- March 19, 1948 Arab Liberation Army
- March 19, 1948 US State Department Says No to State of Israel
- March 19, 1948 Arab Claim: Jewish Palestine will Lead to Communism
- March 21, 1948 Jewish Convoy Attacked Near Bab el Wad
- March 27, 1948 Mutilation of Jewish Corpses by Arabs
- March 30, 1948 Jerusalem Jews Ration Bread
- March 30, 1948 Secretary of Arab Higher Committee Rejects Jerusalem Truce Proposal
- March 30, 1948 Royal Navy Sends Jewish Immigrants to Cyprus
- March 30, 1948 Arabs Pick Up and Leave Villages in Tel Aviv Region
- March 31, 1948 Jewish Convoy Attacked, Seventeen Killed
- March-April 1948 Arab Refugees
- April 1948 Arab Refugees
- April 1948 Israel Offers Peace
- April 3 1948 Arab Higher Committee Encouraged Refugees to Flee
- April 4, 1948 British Try to Make Peace Between Sides Fighting at Kastel
- April 7, 1948 French Representative in UN – Arabs Fled, Not Forced Out
- April 8, 1948 Interview with Sheikh Ismail el Ansary
- April 8, 1948 Disruption of Water Supply to Jerusalem
- April 9, 1948 Mutilation of Corpses at Kastel
- April 9, 1948 Deir Yassin
- April 12,1948 Jews of Jerusalem Starving Due to Arab Road Blocks
- April 13, 1948 Hadassah Convoy Massacre
- April 13, 1948 Hadassah Convoy Massacre – Firsthand Medical Staff Account
- April 13, 1948 Hadassah Convoy Massacre – Yehuda Bromberg
- April 13, 1948 Hadassah Convoy Massacre – Yehuda Mattot
- April 15, 1948 Security Council Failed to Act on Palestine Truce
- April 15, 1948 Dr. Barnes to Commander of 2nd Infantry Brigade, Jerusalem
- April 15, 1948 Ismail Safwat Pasha, Arab Liberation Armies
- April 15, 1948 GOC British Troops in Palestine to President of Zion University
- April 15, 1948 Jewish Forces against Arab Forces
- April 18, 1948 Dr. Barnes Responds to GOC’s Claims Regarding the Hadassah Massacre
- April 18, 1948 6,000 Arabs Suddenly Left Tiberias
- April 22, 1948 Excerpts from Syrian and Egyptian Addresses in U.N.
- April 23, 1948 Acting Chairman of Palestine Higher Committee
- April 23, 1948 Arab Mass Evacuation of Haifa
- April 24, 1948 Attacks in Haifa Started By Arabs
- Apri 25-29 1948 Arab Refugees
- April 26, 1948 Statement of High-Ranking British Officer in Haifa
- April 26, 1948 Arab Nations May Invade Palestine by Saturday
- April 26, 1948 Arab Evacuation of Acre
- April 27, 1948 British Deny Abdullah War on Zionism
- April 27, 1948 Arabs Slay Briton
- April 27, 1948 558 Immigrants Deported to Cyprus by British
- April 28, 1948 Bevin Declares Palestine Exit May 15 Is Sure
- May 2, 1948 Arab Nations of the Middle East Invade Palestine
- May 2, 1948 Map of Palestine
- May 3, 1948 Haifa Becomes a Ghost City
- May 5, 1948 Arab Refugees
- May 5, 1948 War Develops
- May 8, 1948 Lebanese and Jordanian Infiltrators
- May 12, 1948 Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League
- May 12, 1948 Palestine Regime Planned by Arabs; Will Reject Truce
- May 12, 1948 Is Palestine War a Myth? San Francisco Chronicle
- May 12, 1948 Foreign Minister of Egypt on Intention to Annihilate Israel
- May 13, 1948 Massacre at Kfar Etzion
- May 13, 1948 Haganah Galilee Offensive – Operation Ben-Ami
- May 13, 1948 President Truman vs. Secretary of State on Palestine
- May 14, 1948 Truman and Marshall’s Ongoing Conflict over Palestine
- May 14, 1948 Israel’s Declaration of Independence
- May 14, 1948 Termination of the White Paper of 1939
- May 14, 1948 Palestinian Refugees Flee to Gaza from all over the World
- May 15, 1948 Reaction of Arab States to End of British Mandate
- May 15, 1948 West Bank Annexed, Gaza Closed Military Zone
- May 15, 1948 The New York Times Reports on Declaration of Independence
- May 15, 1948 1,256 Jews Killed between Nov ’47 and May ’48
- May 15, 1948 Palestine’s Arabs Welcome Advancing Arab Armies
- May 15, 1948 Arab Legion Waiting in Jordan to Cross into Palestine
- May 16, 1948 Colonel David Marcus Reports on Jewish Forces’ Resolve
- May 17 1948 US Delegation to UN on Invasion by Arab Armies
- May 18, 1948 Arab Leader Cooperates with King Abdullah
- May 19, 1948 Arab Legion Participates in Jerusalem Attack
- May 19, 1948 Russian Delegate Reports to U.N. on Arab Aggression
- May 20, 1948 Worldwide Indifference to Jordanian Havoc in Jerusalem
- May 26, 1948 May 26, 1948 Arabs Urge Action by Security Council
- May 27, 1948 Havoc and Destruction in the Old City of Jerusalem
- May 30, 1948 Arab Refugees from Jaffa
- May 30, 1948 Haganah Takes on Ramleh and Lydda Strongholds
- May 30, 1948 Withdrawal of British Officers from Arab Legion
- May 30, 1948 Jewish Refugees from Egypt
- May 30, 1948 Almost Daily Air Bombardment in Israel
- June 1, 1948 Posters Urging Massacre of the Jews, Morocco
- June 1, 1948 Fighting by the Port of Nahariya
- June 3, 1948 King Abdullah of Jordan
- June 4, 1948 Egypt & Lebanon against Jewish State
- June 7-8 1948 Jewish Refugees from Morocco
- June 11, 1948 Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha
- June 12, 1948 Peace Talks Scheduled, Arabs May Not Agree to Attend
- June 17, 1948 Arab League: U.N. Needs to Shelve Partition Plan
- June 21, 1948 Jerusalem Restocked to Near Normal Point
- June 30, 1948 Count Bernadotte Proposes Federal State in Palestine
- June 30, 1948 Arab Refugees
- July 1948 Zionist Activity Punishable by Execution in Iraq
- July 1, 1948 Lieutenant General John Glubb on Palestinian Jews
- July 1, 1948 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion on Forgiving Britain
- July 1, 1948 Two Arab Monarchs Insist on Full Control of Palestine
- July 7, 1948 Israeli Civilian Aircraft Shot Down, Two Killed
- July 9, 1948 King Farouk Dissatisfied with Arabs Who Fled Palestine
- July 10, 1948 Civilians Flee Lydda and Ramleh Before Towns Captured
- July 10, 1948 Israeli Forces Capture Lydda Airport
- July 11, 1948 Fighting over Ramleh and Lydda
- July 12, 1948 Calm in Lydda Shattered
- July 13, 1948 Villages near Lydda Recaptured by Israeli Troops
- July 19, 1948 Jewish Department Store in Cairo Blown Up
- July 19, 1948 Arab Countries Don’t Agree to Arab League’s Truce
- July 20, 1948 Pogrom in Egypt
- July 24, 1948 Israel Offers Peace
- July 27, 1948 Jewish Refugees – Lebanon
- July 28, 1948 Jewish Refugees – Egypt
- August 1948 – Jewish Refugees – Egypt
- August 1 1948 Jewish Refugees – Egypt
- August 1, 1948 Israel Offers Peace
- August 3, 1948 Arab Refugees
- August 4, 1948 Arab Refugees
- August 4, 1948 Israel Seeks Freedom for Jews in Cyprus
- August 6, 1948 Israel Asks Arabs to Discuss Peace at Direct Parley
- August 12, 1948 Arab Refugees
- August 13, 1948 Arab Refugees
- August 14, 1948 Arab Refugees
- August 16, 1948 Arab Refugees
- August 28, 1948 – Jewish Refugees – Iraq
- August 31, 1948 Jamal Husseini’s Description of the Palestine Situation
- September 1948 Jewish Refugees – Iraq
- September 6, 1948 Arab Refugees
- September 8, 1948 Arabs to Discontinue Talks on Truce Due to Refugees
- September 22, 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
- September 23, 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries – Iraq
- September 27, 1948 Arab Refugees
- September 28, 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries – Egypt
- October 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries – Egypt
- October 2, 1948 Israel Offers Peace
- October 8, 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries – Iraq
- October 19, 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries – Iraq
- November 1948 Arab Refugees
- November 9, 1948 Raphael Lemkin Coins the Word “Genocide”
- November 25, 1948 Jewish State Supported by U.N. Majority
- December 1948 Arab Refugees
- December 1948 Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries – Yemen
- December 14, 1948 100,000 Rally in Egypt against Partition of Palestine
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