“The Security situation in Palestine continues to be aggravated not only in the areas of the proposed Jewish and Arab States, but also in the city of Jerusalem.
Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort in Palestine to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein.”
Source: U.N. Palestine commission in its first report about security to the United Nations Security Council: Nation