WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Withdrawal. In November 1947, the United Nations recommended the partition of Palestine and the establishment of separate Arab and Jewish states. On 15 May 1948, Britain gave up her mandate. The British Army departed from Palestine leaving the Jews and the Arabs to fight it out in the war that followed.

Detailed explanation-2: -The termination of the British mandate over Palestine and the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked a full-scale war (1948 Arab–Israeli War) which erupted after May 14, 1948.

Detailed explanation-3: -Palestine became a center of conflict with Balfour Declaration. This stated that the British supported Jewish immigration and Palestine had to create their own homeland. The Declaration being announced threatened those who were living in Palestine since they already had been promised their independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.