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خطة دالت
Exact day10 March 1948
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 10 March 1948 the Zionist leadership adopted Plan Dalet (Plan D), a comprehensive military plan to take control of the territory of the planned Jewish state and beyond as the British withdrew; its first operation, Nachshon, began on 1 April 1948.
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question dates the second stage of the Nakba from 10 March 1948, when the Zionist leadership established what it calls a plan for ethnic cleansing, known as Plan Dalet; its first operation, Nachshon, followed on 1 April. The United Nations study quotes an Israeli official’s description: prepared by the Haganah High Command in March 1948, the plan’s mission was to gain control of the area allotted to the Jewish state and to defend the Jewish settlements and population beyond it.12
Link to this chapterThe United Nations study concludes from the writings of Zionist leaders that their policy was to occupy, during the British withdrawal, as much territory as possible beyond the boundaries the partition resolution had assigned to the Jewish state.3
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe Nakba, The Mandate ends; Israel is declared, The UN partition plan, UN resolution 194: the right of return, The Lydda massacre and death march
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)
Original-language quotation · enon 10 March 1948, when the Zionist leadership established a plan for ethnic cleansing known as “Plan Dalet.”Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Zionist policies of territorial expansion
Original-language quotation · enIn March 1948, Haganah High Command prepared a comprehensive operational Plan ‘D’, replacing plans ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Zionist policies of territorial expansion
Original-language quotation · enZionist policy was to occupy, during the period of withdrawal, as much territory as possible (including the “West Bank”) beyond the boundaries assigned to the Jewish State by the partition resolutionLink to this citationarticle · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Maher Charif, “The Nakba”, 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, part II, as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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03-10 · occurrence
Anniversary of the documented date.