The "1947-1948 Civil War in the Mandatory Palestine lasted from 30 November 1947, with the United Nations vote in favour of the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine and the UN Partition Plan, to 14 May 1948, with the termination of the British Mandate itself.

This period constitutes the first phase of the 1948 Palestine war, during which the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine clashed, while the British, who supposedly had the obligation to maintain order, organized their withdrawal and intervened only on an occasional basis.

The next phase of the conflict was the 1948 Arab-Israeli War which began on the 15 May, 1948, on the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel, when the conflict in Palestine became an outright war between the new State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.