The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181(II). The UN Partition Plan marked the first official international attempt to resolve the Arab–Jewish conflict in Palestine. Although it was never fully implemented due to rejection by Arab states, it laid the foundation for the creation of Israel and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Prior to World War I, Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. After its defeat, the League of Nations granted Britain the mandate to govern the territory. During this period, tensions between Jewish immigrants and the Arab population began to escalate. Waves of Jewish immigration, particularly due to Zionist movements and the Holocaust, increased the Jewish population in Palestine. Arabs resisted what they saw as encroachment on their homeland, leading to riots and violent clashes in the 1920s-1930s.
