Palestine

10th February 1918


	Sc1	xxx

roul 20, ungummed, wmk crown and "GvR", litho
Printed by the Typographical Department, Survey of Egypt, Giza, Cairo.

Description		Scott	SG	Mi	Y&T	Notes
1 piastre deep blue		1	1a			SG1b = blue
1p ultra		2	1

British and Allied forces invaded Palestine in November 1917 and a series of similar stamps (plus overprints) was issued during 1918 inscribed EEF (Egypt Expeditionary Force), for use in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, parts of Cilicia and northeastern Egypt. Palestine was placed under civil administration in July 1920 and from September 1923 until May 1948 Britain was granted a mandate by the League of Nations to administer Palestine. On the same day the mandate ended, the State of Israel was proclaimed.

	image	image
British Military Occupation	British Civil Administration	British Mandate
1918 Sc1 SG1a	1920 Sc15 SG16	1927 Sc63 SG90

Palestine, Phases
Gibbons	SG	Date	Scott	Sc
British Military Occupation	1-15	1918		1-14
Civil Admin. under British High Commissioner	16-89	1920-22	British Administration	15-62
British Mandate to the League of Nations	90-111	1927-44	British Administration	63-84


Egyptian occupation	Indian UN Force
1948 Egypt Sc-N1 Gaza SG1	1965 India Sc-M62 Gaza SG-G1

Gaza

Gibbons has a separate listing for Gaza in Part 19 [1] for Gaza, listing Egyptian occupation issues from 1948 and an Indian UN force in 1965. It notes, "On 15 May 1948 when the British mandate for Palestine ended, Egyptian troops seized the coastal town of Gaza." Israeli troops drove them back to what became known as the Gaza Strip. In subsequent hostilities, Israeli stamps during occupations in 1957 and 1967-94 and Egyptian overprints at other times. Under an agreement in 1994, Israel withdrew and Gaza and Jericho on the West Bank and they became autonomous under the Palestine Authority. India issued a stamp in 1965 when its troops formed part of a UN force in Gaza.

Palestinian Authority

1994 Sc1 SG-PA1

In 1994, the Palestinian Authority obtained rights to some of the West Bank territory and started issuing stamps. Scott lists the first set of stamps as #1-13, but footnotes that #8-12 were issued first (August 15, 1994) with the remainder of the set issued September 1 of that year. [Tim Balm (FICC #91), 2]