List of estimates of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight

This article lists the various interim and final United Nations estimates for the number of Palestinian people who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war. It also provides other interim and final estimates for the number of Palestinian refugees for that period.

UN estimates

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Estimate of number of people who left or fled the area captured by Israel

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Estimates of total number of people who registered as refugees

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Other estimates of flight or refugees

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Interim estimates

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Interim estimates from UN sources:

From other sources:

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ This estimate by the UN Conciliation Commission has been repeated in a number of other UN documents.[2][3] The number was calculated by estimating the number of non-Jews living within the borders of Israel at the end of 1947 and subtracting the number of remaining non-Jews living within the borders of Israel after the war. It does not include an estimated 25,000 border-line refugees – refugees who lost their livelihood because their village land was located in Israeli-occupied territory, while the village house remained in Arab territory. The figure was later revised down by the UN Conciliation Commission to 711,000.[4]
  2. ^ The Committee believed the estimate to be "as accurate as circumstances permit", and attributed the higher number on relief to, among other things, "duplication of ration cards, addition of persons who have been displaced from area other than Israel-held areas and of persons who, although not displaced, are destitute."
  3. ^ Figure inflated because "all births are eagerly announced, the deaths wherever possible are passed over in silence, and as the birthrate is high in any case, a net addition of 30,000 names a year".[8] The figure includes descendants of the Palestinian refugees born after the Palestinian exodus up to June 1951.
  4. ^ Figure does not match official UNRWA estimates submitted to the UN.
  5. ^ Figure later revised down to 876,000 by UNRWA after "many false and duplicate registrations weeded out."[8]
  6. ^ Figure calculated by using the official village statistics of 1944/1945 and upgraded to 1948/1949 by taking a net natural increase of 3.8% for four years. The number of non-Jews remaining in Israel was then deducted from the total count.
  7. ^ Figure refers only to people registered as refugees.
  8. ^ Figure refers only to people registered as refugees.

References

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  4. ^ "A/1367/Rev.1". United Nations. 23 October 1950. Archived from the original on 3 June 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  5. ^ "U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 5th Session, Supplement No. 18, Document A/1367/Rev. 1". United Nations. 23 October 1950. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  6. ^ "A/AC.25/W/81/Rev.2". United Nations. 2 October 1961. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  7. ^ a b "U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 6th Session, Supplement No. 16, Document A/1905". United Nations. United Nations. 28 September 1951. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
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  18. ^ Morris Birth Revisted, p602: "The director general of the Israel Foreign Ministry, Walter Eytan, in a private letter in late 1950 referred to the UNRWA registration in 1949 of 726,000 as ‘meticulous’ but thought that ‘the real number was close to 800,000’."
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  23. ^ U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session, Supplement No. 11, Document A/648
  24. ^ UN General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session Supplement No. 11A, Document A/689
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