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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People-29 November
November 30 , 2017
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- The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is annually observed on November 29.
- The occasion marks the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 181 (II) on 29 November 1947 partitioning the British mandate of Palestine into two States.
- This year’s observance marks 50 years since the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
- The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem.
- Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Southern Syria after World War I.
- British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.
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