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Reword paragraph about atrocities and the Nakba / Palestinian expulsions - "During the war, massacres and acts of terror were conducted by and against both sides. A campaign of massacres and violence against the Arab population, such as occurred at Lydda and Ramle and the Battle of Haifa, led to the expulsion and flight of over 700,000 Palestinians, with most of their urban areas being depopulated and destroyed. This violence and dispossession of the Palestinians is known today as the Nakba (... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit Disambiguation links added |
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By the end of the war, the former territory of the mandate was divided among the State of Israel, which had captured about 78% of it, the [[Jordan|Kingdom of Jordan]] (then known as Transjordan), which [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank|had captured and later annexed]] the area that became the [[West Bank]], and [[Egypt]], which had captured the [[Gaza Strip]].
During the war, [[Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war|
A campaign of massacres and violence against the Arab population, such as occurred at [[1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle|Lydda and Ramle]] and the [[Battle of Haifa]], led to the [[1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight|expulsion and flight of over 700,000 Palestinians]], with [[Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel|most of their urban areas being depopulated and destroyed]]. This violence and dispossession of the Palestinians is known today as the [[Nakba]] ([[Arabic]] for "the disaster")<ref name="refugees">
*{{cite book |first=Benny |last=Morris |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA602 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited |pages=602–604 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |quote=It is impossible to arrive at a definite persuasive estimate. My predilection would be to opt for the loose contemporary British formula, that of 'between 600,000 and 760,000' refugees; but, if pressed, 700,000 is probably a fair estimate}}
*{{cite book |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1949v06&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=973 |title=Memo US Department of State, 4 May 1949 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712104802/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1949v06&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=973 |archive-date=12 July 2019 |series=[[Foreign Relations of the United States (book series)|Foreign Relations of the United States]] |year=1949 |page=973 |quote=One of the most important problems which must be cleared up before a lasting peace can be established in Palestine is the question of the more than 700,000 Arab refugees who during the Palestine conflict fled from their homes in what is now Israeli occupied territory and are at present living as refugees in Arab Palestine and the neighbouring Arab states.}}
*{{cite book |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1949v06&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=984 |title=Memorandum on the Palestine Refugee Problem, 4 May 1949 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712104751/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1949v06&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=984 |archive-date=12 July 2019 |series=[[Foreign Relations of the United States (book series)|Foreign Relations of the United States]] |year=1949 |page=984 |quote=Approximately 700,000 refugees from the Palestine hostilities, now located principally in Arab Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria, will require repatriation to Israel or resettlement in the Arab states.}}</ref> and
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