[[Henry Gurney|Sir Henry Gurney]] menjabat sebagai Sekretaris Utama di Palestina dari Oktober 1946 hingga pemberhentiannya dan menulis buku harian yang mencakup periode tersebut.<ref>{{Cite book| last=Gurney| first=Sir Henry|editor = Motti Golani |title=The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948 The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney| publisher= Palgrave Macmillan| date = 2009| isbn = 9780230244733 }}</ref> Sebuah tinjauan oleh sejarawan Rory Miller menyetujui keputusan editor Golani untuk memasukkan penjelasan dan perspektif ilmiah yang terperinci ke dalam buku harian tersebut.<ref name="Miller2011">{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=Rory|title=The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948: The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=47|issue=1|year=2011|pages=211–213|issn=0026-3206|doi=10.1080/00263206.2011.540186|s2cid=147695956}}</ref>
== ArabTanggapan responseArab ==
OnPada tanggal 22 MarchMaret 1945, the [[Liga Arab League]] was foundeddidirikan. The [[ArabKomite HigherTinggi CommitteeArab]] (AHCKTA) wasdibentuk kembali reconstitutedpada inbulan November 1945 tountuk representmewakili Palestinianorang-orang Arab ArabsPalestina <ref name = Benny>{{cite book| title = 1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war| last = Morris| first = Benny| author-link = Benny Morris| publisher = Yale University Press| year = 2008| isbn = 978-0-300-12696-9| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=J5jtAAAAMAAJ|page =27 }}</ref> anddan metbertemu atpada the beginning ofawal MayMei 1946 tountuk considermempertimbangkan theirtanggapan responsemereka toterhadap thepenerbitan publication of thelaporan Anglo American report.<ref>H. Levenberg, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4283465 "Bevin's Disillusionment: The London Conference, Autumn 1946"], MiddleStudi EasternTimur StudiesTengah. pP. 617 VolJil. 27, No. 4 (OctoberOktober 1991)</ref> TheNegara-negara Arab statesbereaksi reacteddengan withpertemuan summitpuncak meetings atdi [[Inshas]] atpada theakhir endMei of May anddan [[Bloudan_Conference_of_1946|Bloudan]] inpada bulan JuneJuni.<ref>{{Cite book|last = Rubin|first = Barry|title = The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict|publisher = Syracuse University Press|date = 1981|url = https://archive.org/details/arabstatespalest0000rubi/page/154|page = [https://archive.org/details/arabstatespalest0000rubi/page/154 154]|isbn = 978-0815622536}}</ref>
AfterSetelah thekegagalan failure of theKonferensi London Conferencedan andrujukan UNPBB, referralnegara-negara theArab Arabsterus continuedmendesakkan totuntutan pressmereka theiragar demandArab forPalestina an immediate independent Arabsegera Palestinemerdeka.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Arab Unity of Action and the Palestine Question, 1945-48|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=22|issue=3|date=1986|pages=338–340|jstor=4283126|last1=Mayer|first1=Thomas|doi=10.1080/00263208608700669}}</ref>
