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Person · United Nations mediator in Palestine, 1948–1949
1904–1971
An American political scientist and United Nations official, born in Detroit on 7 August 1904. He replaced Count Folke Bernadotte as the UN’s mediator for Palestine after Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem on 17 September 1948, and when the fighting ended gathered the delegations of the warring sides on the island of Rhodes, arranging the armistice agreements from February to July 1949. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his work as mediator in Palestine, and died in New York on 9 December 1971.
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Ralph Johnson Bunche
توقيع أول اتفاقية هدنة في رودس
On 24 February 1949, on the island of Rhodes, Egypt and Israel signed a General Armistice Agreement under United Nations chairmanship, in force from its signature: the first of the armistices that Israel concluded by July with Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. They ended the bloodshed of the 1948 war; no peace treaty followed.
UN mediator: brought the delegations to Rhodes to negotiate the armistice agreements
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (article by Michael Fischbach)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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document · The Nobel Prize (Nobel Prize Outreach)
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PersonRalph Bunche participated in EventThe first armistice agreement is signed at Rhodes
Role: UN mediator: brought the delegations to Rhodes to negotiate the armistice agreements
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (article by Michael Fischbach).
IV. The Palestine War and the Nakba ↗
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