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Exact day11 December 1917
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 11 December 1917 General Edmund Allenby, commanding the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, proclaimed Jerusalem under martial law after the defeat of the Ottoman forces. Palestine was then under British military government until June 1920.
In a proclamation dated Jerusalem, 11 December 1917, General Edmund Allenby, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, said that the defeat his troops had inflicted on the Turks had resulted in the occupation of the city, and proclaimed it under martial law. He declared that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine and traditional site of the three religions would be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of their adherents.12
Link to this chapterThe United Nations study records that before the Mandate took legal effect in September 1923, Palestine was administered first by a military government, from December 1917 to June 1920, until a civilian High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, took office on 1 July 1920.3
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe Balfour Declaration
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Proclamation text
Original-language quotation · enI, therefore, here now proclaim it to be under martial lawLink to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Proclamation text
Editorial paraphrase · enEvery sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine and traditional site of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of their adherents.
Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter V, Mandated Palestine: the “Jewish national home”
Original-language quotation · enthe de facto administration was first in the form of a military government from December 1917 to June 1920, with a civilian High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, taking office on 1 July 1920Link to this citationdocument · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The proclamation’s text, in the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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document · United Nations
The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (ST/SG/SER.F/1), as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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12-11 · occurrence
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