Timeline of January 1948
January 1:
January 2:
January 3:
January 4:
January 5:
January 6:British
sells 20 Auster planes to Jewish authorities in Palestine
January 7:Palestinian guerrilla
leader 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini secretly returns to Palestine after
ten-year exile to organize resistance to partition.
January 8: First contingent of 330
ALA volunteers arrives in Palestine.
January 9:
January 10:
January 11:
January 12:
January 13:
January 14:
Haganah concludes $12,280,000 arms deal with Czechoslovakia, including
24,500 rifles, 5,200 machine guns and 54 million rounds of
ammunition.
January 15:
January 16:
British report to UN estimates 1,974 people killed or injured in
Palestine from 30 November 1947 - 10 January 1948.
January 17:
January 18:
January 19:
January 20: British
administration announces that predominantly Jewish or Palestinian areas
will be gradually handed over to local majority group in every area
concerned.
January 21: Second and third
contingents of 360 and 400 ALA irregulars arrive in Palestine.
January 22:
January 23:
January 24:
January 25:
January 26:
January 27:
January 28:Second
and third contingents of 360 and 400 ALA irregulars arrive in
Palestine.
January 22:
January 29:
January 30:
January 31:
JNF leaders encourage eviction from villages of Haifa area.
Source: Reference:
http://www.alnakba.org/chronology/sixth.htm