On 17 September 1948, UN mediator Count Bernadotte was murdered in Jerusalem by a Zionist militant organization Lehi. Bernadotte, a leading Swedish diplomat was appointed by the UN Security Council as a mediator to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Count Bernadotte’s presence in Palestine followed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the subsequent unilateral Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.
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