UN partition of Palestine

UN partition of Palestine Britain, which had ruled Palestine since 1920, handed over responsibility for solving the Zionist-Arab problem to the UN in 1947. The territory was plagued with chronic unrest pitting native Arabs against Jewish immigrants, who now made up about a third the population, owning about 6 percent of the land. The UN set up a special committee which recommended splitting the territory into separate Jewish and Palestinian states. Palestinian representatives, rejected the proposal; while the Jewish Agency accepted it. The partition plan gave % of Palestine to the Jewish state and % to the Arab state, with an international enclave around Jerusalem. On 29 November 1947, 33 countries of the UN General Assembly voted for partition, 13 voted against and 10 abstained.