Palestine National Day

This is a public holidays and commemorates the declaration of independence in 1988. After the end of World War Two, the Un adopted a Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine recommending the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalised Jerusalem. This partition plans were accepted by the Jews but declined by the Arabs. The day after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, neighbouring Arab armies invaded the former British mandate of Palestine and fought the Israeli forces. The ensuing war saw the former British mandate of Palestine divided between Israel, Trans-Jordan and Egypt. Israel later captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria in June 1967 during the six day war. On 15th November 1988, the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation proclaimed the establishment of the State of Palestine.