The 1948 Palestine war, known in Hebrew as The War of Independence (, Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut) or the War of Liberation (, Milkhemet HaShikhrur) and in Arabic as The Nakba or Catastrophe (, al-Nakba), refers to the war that occurred in the former Mandatory Palestine during the period between the United Nations vote on the partition plan on November 30, 1947, and the official end of the first Arab-Israeli war on July 20, 1949.