Palestinian Refugees Flee Israel
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Islam, Muslims, Mosques, Human Rights, Asylum, Refugees
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Middle East, Israel, Palestine
- Date: 1948
Article abstract: Four hundred thousand Palestinians were driven from their homeland after the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, joining those who fled to safety after the U.N. vote to create a Jewish state.
Summary of Event
As World War I raged in the Middle East, Great Britain and France signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 to divide the region into British and French zones of influence. Meanwhile, the British high commissioner of Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, carried out diplomatic contacts with Hussein ibn Abdallah, emir of the Hijaz, whereby the...
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