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The village of Deir Yassin was located west of Jerusalem, but its strategic importance was debatable and its inhabitants had not participated in the war until one week before the attack. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] On 9 April, around 120 men from the Irgun and the Lehi attacked the village in the context of the Operation Nachshon .
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on the Nakba Background Mandatory Palestine 1947 UN Partition Plan Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine Zionism Zionism as settler colonialism 1948 Nakba 1948 Palestine war 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine 1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948 Palestinian expulsion and ...
Before the war, Haifa was a mixed city with a population of 135,000, split between Jews (70,000) and Palestinian Arabs (65,000). [5] The two populations were largely separate, with the main Jewish areas of the city being Hadar HaCarmel, Bat Galim, and Neve Sha'anan, while Halisa, Wadi Salib, Wadi Nisnas, Kfur Samir, and Wadi al-Jimal were predominantly Arab.
Arab refugees, mostly women and children, from a village near Haifa begin a three mile hike carrying large bundles of personal possessions to the Arab lines in Tulkarim, West Bank, on June 26, 1948.
In his book, The Arab–Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, Karsh wrote that the Arab Higher Committee played a key part in the exoduses from Haifa, Tiberias, and Jaffa. [107] [better source needed] A 3 May 1948 Time magazine article attributed the exodus from the city of Haifa to fear, Arab orders to leave and a Jewish assault. [159]
The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing [4] of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. [5]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1948 Palestine war Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict From top to bottom, left to right: Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni with fellow fighters from the Holy War Army Haganah personnel carry a man wounded by the ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1948 Arab–Israeli War Part of the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict From top to bottom, left to right: John Bagot Glubb, commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion with soldiers in Ramallah Jewish soldiers raising the Israeli flag at the end of the war Israeli soldier with ...