 Due to the Jewish insurgency in Palestine, bad publicity over the restriction of Jewish immigrants to Palestine, non-acceptance of a partitioned state (as suggested by the United Nations) amongst Arabs residents, and the cost of keeping 100,000 troops in Palestine the British Government referred the matter to the United Nations.The British were against the partition plan and announced they would hand the Mandate over to the U.N. on 15 May 1948.However, on 14 May the Israeli Declaration of Independence was unilaterally declared, leading to the 1948 Palestinian exodus.