10 Facts About UNSCOP

The General Assembly adopted the recommendation to set up the UNSCOP to investigate the cause of the conflict in Palestine, and, if possible, devise a solution.

UNSCOP visited Palestine and gathered testimony from Zionist organisations in Palestine and in the US.

UNSCOP first heard evidence from two British representatives and the head of the Jewish Agency's Political Department, Moshe Shertok, who submitted documents and were questioned by the committee's members.

UNSCOP members were deeply impressed by the cleanliness and modernity of Jewish areas, in comparison to the dirtiness and what they viewed as the backwardness of Arab areas.

UNSCOP met twice with commanders from the right-wing Zionist guerrilla group Irgun after arranging contact with the Irgun through an Associated Press correspondent.

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UNSCOP members were shown new British Army barracks being constructed in the Negev, and were told that this would be the future basing area for British troops in the Suez Canal zone.

UNSCOP members noticed the constant presence of armed British security forces and armored cars in the streets, barbed wire around entire blocks of buildings, abundant pillboxes and roadblocks, and constant security checks in the streets.

UNSCOP appealed to the British government through UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie to spare their lives.

UNSCOP followed the events surrounding the SS Exodus, an illegal immigration ship carrying 4,554 Jewish Holocaust survivors which was intercepted by the Royal Navy.

Seven members of the UNSCOP endorsed a partition plan favoured by the Zionist leadership on 2 October 1947.