1949 Armistice Agreements

•  1948 Arab–Israeli War

  The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known by Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation and by the Arabs as the Catastrophe, was the first in a series of wars fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict. The war commenced upon the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine in mid-May 1948 following a previous phase of civil war in 1947–1948.

  

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•  Haganah

  Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.

  

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•  United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

  The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948 for peacekeeping in the Middle East. Its primary task was providing the military command structure to the peace keeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peace keepers to observe and maintain the cease-fire, and as may be necessary in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements.

  

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•  United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

  The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine' or ' was a resolution adopted by the General Assembly. It was approved by a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions on November 29, 1947.

  

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•  List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict

  Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab-Israeli conflict. While both Jewish and Arab villages have been depopulated, the vast majority of them are Arab villages emptied during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. For this reason, it is generally referred to as the Nakba ("catastrophe") among Arabs.

  

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•  Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War

  Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and unarmed soldiers. Benny Morris writes that, after the war, Israel contrasted its "purity of arms" with the alleged barbarity of the Arab armies, which had engaged in the mutilation of corpses of Jewish prisoners of war. This helped to sell the image of the new Jewish state abroad.

  

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•  Al-Dawayima massacre

  On October 28, 1948, the Arab town al-Dawayima (also spelt Dawaymeh) was conquered during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war by the 89th Commando Battalion which was composed of former Irgun and Lehi forces. They encountered only "light resistance" from the villagers, whose core clan, the Ahdibs, traced their origins to the Muslim conquest of Palestine in the seventh century. Dawayima was situated a few kilometres West of Hebron.

  

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•  Barak Armored Brigade

  The 188th "Barak"/"Lightning" Armor Brigade is an Israeli regular armor brigade, under command of the Northern Command. The symbol of the Barak Armor Brigade is a shield with a red border, blue and white Haifa coastline background and a sword on it. The brigade has a long history and was part of the Yishuv's forces in Palestine before the foundation of the state of Israel.

  

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•  Al-Kabri massacre

  On May 20, 1948, the Israeli Carmeli Brigade captured al-Kabri, an Arab village in the north-west corner of the region of Palestine which became the State of Israel. The operational orders given that day were to "attack with the aim of conquest, the killing of adult males, [and] the destruction and torching of the villages of Kabri, Umm al Faraj and Al-Nahr. " The orders were carried out to the letter. Al-Kabri was captured without any resistance and it was almost immediately depopulated.

  

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•  Hula massacre

  The Hula massacre took place between 31 October and 1 November 1948. Hula (Hule) was a village in Lebanon 3 km west of Kibbutz Manara, not far from the Litani River. It was captured on October 24 by the Carmeli Brigade without any resistance at all. Between 35 and 58 captured men were reportedly shot down in a house which was later blown up on top of them. Two officers were responsible for the massacre.

  

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•  Parasitism

  Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the host. In general, parasites are much smaller than their hosts, show a high degree of specialization for their mode of life, and reproduce more quickly and in greater numbers than their hosts.

  

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•  Aki Province

  Aki Province or Geishū (芸州) was a province in the Chūgoku Region of western Honshū, comprising the western part of what is today Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. When Emperor Shōmu ordered two official temples for each province (one for male Buddhist priests and one for nuns), two temples were founded in Aki Province. The provincial temple was founded in present-day Saijō, Higashihiroshima. In the late Heian Period (12th century), Aki Province became well known for the Itsukushima Shrine.

  

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•  Eric Knott

  Eric James Knott (born September 23, 1974 in Harvey, Illinois) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001 and the Montreal Expos in 2003, playing in 16 career games.

  

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•  Monal Coliblanco

  

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