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Jawaher Anwar Khalil Ba’lousha (4), Jabalia Camp, NORTH GAZA - Dena Anwar Khalil Ba’lousha (7), Jabalia Camp, NORTH GAZA
- Samar Anwar Khalil Ba’lousha (12), Jabalia Camp, NORTH GAZA
- Ekram Anwar Khalil Ba’lousha (13), Jabalia Camp, NORTH GAZA
- Tahreer Anwar Khalil Ba’lousha (17), Jabalia Camp, NORTH GAZA
- Sudqi Ziad Mahmoud al-Absi (4), Yebna Camp, RAFAH
- Ahmad Ziad Mahmoud al-Absi (12), Yebna Camp, RAFAH
- Mohammad Ziad Mahmoud al-Absi (13) Yebna Camp, RAFAH
- Ebtihal Abdallah Tawfiq Keshko (7), Gaza City, CENTRAL GAZA
- Yasmin Wa’el Dhaban (16), Gaza City, CENTRAL GAZA
- Hanin Wa'el Dhaban (15), Gaza City, CENTRAL GAZA
- Mustafa Khader Saber Abu Ghanima (16), Gaza city, CENTRAL GAZA
- Mohammad Basel Mahmoud Madi (17)
- Lama Talal Shehda Hamdan (4), Beit Hanoun city, NORTH GAZA
- Haia Talal Shehda Hamdan (12), Beit Hanoun city, NORTH GAZA
- Esmail Talal Shehda Hamdan (9), Beit Hanoun city, NORTH GAZA
- Mohammad Eyad Abed Rabu al-Astal (11), al-Qarara, KHAN YUNIS
- Abed Rabu Eyad al-Astal (8), al-Qarara, KHAN YUNIS
- Abed al-Sattar Walid al-Astal (11), al-Qarara, KHAN YUNIS
A UN special committee proposes a partition plan giving 56.47 percent of Palestine for a Jewish state and 44.53 percent for an Arab state. Palestinian representatives reject the plan, but their Jewish counterparts accept it.
On November 29, the UN General Assembly approves the plan, with 33 countries voting for partition, 13 voting against it and 10 abstentions.
1948-49: On May 14, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, publicly reads the Proclamation of Independence. The declaration, which would go into effect the next day, comes a day ahead of the expiration of the British Mandate on Palestine. The Jewish state takes control of 77 percent of the territory of Mandate Palestine, according to the UN.
For Palestinians, this date marks the “Nakba”, the catastrophe that heralds their subsequent displacement and dispossession.
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, hearing word of massacres in villages such as Dir Yassin, flee towards Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordanian territory, the armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq attack Israel, launching the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The Arab armies are repelled, a ceasefire is declared and new borders – more favourable to Israel – are drawn. Jordan takes control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem while Egypt controls the Gaza Strip. . . .