1948 Arab–Israeli War

1948 Arab–Israeli War

Second and final stage of the 1947–1949 Palestine war

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war of separate states with the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight, and the invasion by a military coalition of Arab states into the territory of Mandatory Palestine the following morning. The war formally ended with the 1949 Armistice Agreements which established the Green Line.

Also known as...First Arab-Israeli War, 1948 War of Independence, Nakba, and 1948 Arab–Zionist War
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