1948 Palestinian exodus

When

1948

Kind

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

31.75° N, 35.24° E

Description

ethnic cleansing, expulsion, and flight of Palestinians during the 1948 Palestine war

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Ethnic cleansing, expulsion, and flight of Palestinians during the 1948 Palestine war

During the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine's predominantly Arab population – were expelled or fled from their homes. Expulsions and attacks against Palestinians were carried out by the Zionist paramilitaries Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi, which merged to become the Israel Defense Forces after the establishment of Israel part way through the war.

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• Wikidata: expulsions and deportationsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nachshon, provoking the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Exode palestinien - Causes de l'exode palestinien de 1948”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page