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During the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that followed, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled. [29] In 1951, the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine estimated that the number of Palestinian refugees displaced from Israel was 711,000. [99]
May 3–4, 1948 Part of Operation Yiftach; opening up Tiberias–Metula road Battle of Safed — May 6–12, 1948 Part of Operation Yiftach; capture of Safed by Palmach forces Operation Maccabi [7] lit. Maccabee: May 8, 1948 Haganah opening up the corridor to Jerusalem. Operation Gideon [8] May 11, 1948 Haganah capture of Beit She'an and ...
In 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, at first by Zionist paramilitaries, [a] and after the establishment of Israel, by its military.
Operation Cast Thy Bread was a top-secret biological warfare operation conducted by the Haganah and later the Israel Defense Forces that began in April 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war. The Haganah used typhoid bacteria to contaminate drinking water wells in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol .
During the war, the British withdrew from Palestine, Zionist forces conquered territory and established the State of Israel, and over 700,000 Palestinians were violently expelled or made to flee. It was the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–Israeli conflict .
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
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]
300,000± by May, 1948 according to Noam Chomsky (in 2002) [27] 380,000± by 15 May 1948 according to Ilan Pappe (in 1994) [28] 335,000 by 5 June 1948 according to Yossef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund. [29] 391,000 by 1 June 1948 according to a report by the Haganah's intelligence service (239,000 from the UN-ascribed Jewish state.) [10]