Knowledge (XXG)

1949–1956 Palestinian expulsions

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1612:, pp. 181: 2 November 1950 Three Palestinian children shot, two fatally by IDF troops near Deir Ayyub in the Latrun salient. According to subsequent Arab legion reports, whose main points were confirmed by UN observers. Ali Muhammad Ali Alyyan (12) his sister Fakhriyeh Muhammad Ali Alyyan (10) and their cousin Khadijeh Abd al Fattah Muhammad Ali (8) all from Yalu village. Had gone to gather fire wood near the demarcation line, some 400 yd (370 m) inside the Jordanian territory. An Israeli patrol came upon them and Khadijeh began to run back to her village. The IDF patrol opened fire and wounded her superficially on the thigh. As the children’s father and uncle rushed to the scene they saw the patrol dragging the brother and sister away to a spot south of Deir Ayyub, in no mans land. The men looked on helplessly from a near by hill. “The two children were stood in a wadi bed and the soldiers opened fire at them. According to both witnesses only one man fired at them with a sten gun but none of the detachment attempted to interfere. 999:
decided on 31 August, by a majority vote, that Israel had violated the Armistice Agreement by expelling villagers of Wadi Fukin across the demarcation line and decided that the villagers should be allowed to return to their homes. However, when the villagers returned to Wadi Fukin under the supervision of the United Nations observers on 6 September, they found most of their houses destroyed and were again compelled by the Israeli Army to return to Jordanian controlled territory. The United Nations Chairman of the Mixed Commission, Colonel Garrison B. Coverdale (US), pressed for a solution of this issue to be found in the Mixed Armistice Commission, in an amicable and UN spirit. After some hesitation, an adjustment in the Green Line was accepted and finally an agreement was reached whereby the Armistice line was changed to give back Wadi Fukin to the Jordanian authority who, in turn, agreed to transfer some uninhabited, but fertile territory south of Bethlehem to the Israeli authority.
1089:(HKJMAC) went into the area and counted over 100 families, nearly 1,000 members of the es-Sani tribe. Sheikh El Hajj Ibrahim informed the MAC that the es-Sani had been forced off their cultivated lands southeast of Beersheba, at El Sharia, to El Laqiya, north-east of Beersheba. On the new area at El Laqiya, for the next three years the es-Sani had made it productive to the extent that Israel then declared a quantity of their grain as surplus crop and demanded that it be sold to the Israeli government at a fixed price. The Military Governor of Beersheba, Lt. Colonel Hermann, informed Sheikh El Hajj Ibrahim that Israel was going to establish a settlement at El Laqiya and that his tribe would have to move to Tel Arad. Sheikh El Hajj Ibrahim had then led the es-Sani over the Jordan/Israel ceasefire land rather that move to the inferior land around Tel Arad. 1315:, p. 6: Ben-Gurion to aides "Before the founding of the State on the eve of its creation, our main interest was self defense. To a large extent, the creation of the state was an act of self defense...Many think that we're still at the same stage. But now the issue at hand is conquest, not self defense. As to setting the borders—it's an open ended matter. In the Bible as well as in our history there are all kinds of definitions of the country's borders, so there is no real limit. No border is absolute. If it's the desert-it could just as well be the other side. If it's the sea, it could also be across the sea. The world has always been this way. Only the terms have changed. If they should find a way of reaching other stars, well then, perhaps the whole earth will no longer suffice." 750:, reported that United Nations Observers recorded extensive looting of villages in Galilee by Israeli forces, which carried away goats, sheep and mules. This looting, United Nations Observers report, appeared to have been systematic as army trucks were used for transportation. The situation, states the report, created a new influx of refugees into Lebanon. Israeli forces, he stated, have occupied the area in Galilee formerly occupied by Kaukji's forces, and have crossed the Lebanese frontier. Bunche goes on to say "that Israeli forces now hold positions inside the south-east corner of Lebanon, involving some fifteen Lebanese villages which are occupied by small Israeli detachments". 688:, a former Egyptian air brigade commander, member of the Muslim Brotherhood and member of the Revolutionary Council. 250 Palestinian volunteers started training in March 1953 with further volunteers coming forward for training in May and December 1953. Part of the Border police personnel were attached to the Military Governor’s office and placed under ‘Abd-al-‘Azim al-Saharti to guard public installations in the Gaza strip. 38: 927:
affected areas. It was inevitable that thousands of people, in the course of this redrawing of demarcation lines, were cut off from the fields that were their livelihood, cut off from their only resources of water and from the meager pastures on which they used to graze their cattle. An estimated 15 villages were ceded to Israel and a further 15,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees.
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invasion they were likely to strike us in the rear. I gathered all the Jewish Mukhtars who had contact with Arabs in different villages, and asked to whisper in the ear of some Arabs that great Jewish reinforcements had arrived in Galilee and that it is going to burn all the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to those Arabs, as a friend, to escape while there is still time.
1600:, pp. 180: August 1950 Four Israeli policemen rape a Palestinian “infiltrator”, Khadija Bint Suliman Hussein of the West Bank village of Qatana at the Agu Gosh police station where she was being held. She was caught picking fruit in a grove that her family owned. The four policemen were tried by an internal disciplinary board and each sentenced to 18 months in prison. 1287:, p. 186: "The major activities towards the end of the 1948 ethnic cleansing operation now focused on implementing Israel's anti-repatriation policy on two levels. The first level was national, introduced in August 1948 by an Israeli governmental decision to destroy all the evicted villages and transform them into new Jewish settlements or 'natural' forests." 842:. There they were let out and ordered to go to Jordan. The soldiers opened fire, aiming just above their heads, meaning to drive them from their homeland for good. However, Chacour's father and brothers managed to return three months later. The operation to achieve a Palestinian Arab free Israel/Lebanon border zone came to an end on 15 16 November, leaving 639:
prices between the two areas. In 1950, most of these complaints concerned the shooting by Israelis of refugee civilians and livestock, said to have illegally crossed the demarcation lines. In the most serious case of this kind, Egypt complained that on the 7 and 14 October 1950, Israeli military forces shelled and machine-gunned the Arab villages of
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Commission should supervise their return and rehabilitation in a manner to be determined by the Commission; (b) Holds that no action involving the transfer of persons across international frontiers, across armistice lines or within the demilitarized zone should be undertaken without prior decision of the Chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commission.
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not only to Palestinian refugees who had left Israeli territory but also to Palestinian Arabs who had remained in Israel but who had left their ordinary place of residence. One quarter of the Arab citizens of Israel are "internal refugees," who until 1948 resided in villages that were destroyed in the war.
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In the first years of Israeli independence building up the state security and power was seen by Ben-Gurion as more important than political and media-orientated matter. He believed that Israel had to understand that if it wished to stabilise its position and realize Zionist goals, it could do so only
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area of Palestine during the period of the British Mandate and was driven from their homes for the first time when the Israeli forces had occupied Beersheba. The Bedouin had gone to settle in Auja al-Hafir and had been living there for more than two years. The Bedouin made representation to return to
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which dealt with the case of some 1,000 villagers whom Israel had expelled from Baqa al-Gharbiyye and forced across the border. Moshe Dayan commented that the United Nations could compel Israel to take the refugees back, but if they did, "They would be sorry." The Consul felt that those words cast a
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informed the inhabitants that they must not employ the refugees, raise difficulties in housing them and refuse to accept their children into schools...The Government would regard it favourably it they pressured them to leave the area. the inhabitants took the hint and acted accordingly and within
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After negotiations lasting days it was arranged for the es-Sani to return to Israel; although the Israelis wanted the es-Sani transported inside Jordan to a point opposite and closer to Tel Arad which the Jordanians refused to do this and it was finally settled that the transfer would be made at the
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Additionally the IDF carried out operations, mainly in Jordanian-held territory and Egyptian-held territory. The early reprisal raids failed to achieve their objectives and managed to increase hatred for Israel amongst Arab countries and refugees. The disruptive and destabilizing nature of the raids
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The Registration of Residents ordinance of 1949 left unregistered Palestinian Arabs without legal status and vulnerable to deportation. The Abandoned Property law of 1950, where the moveable and immovable property belonging to the refugees was effectively appropriated by the state of Israel, applied
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Once the fighting phase of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war had ceased with a truce, the Israeli bureaucracy was faced with the task of ruling over dozens of severely disrupted Israeli Arab villages and towns, where thousands of displaced Palestinians had taken refuge. Since the Israeli state did not trust
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The IDF adopted a free fire policy which included patrols, ambushes, laying mines, setting booby traps and carrying out periodic search operations in Israeli Arab villages. The "free fire" policy in the period of 1949 to 1956 has been estimated to account for 2,700 to 5,000 Palestinian Arab deaths.
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area, proved a challenging one, largely due to the presence of more than 200,000 Palestinian Arab refugees in the Gaza area. The terms of the Armistice Agreement restricted Egypt's use and deployment of regular armed forces in the Gaza strip. The Egyptian government circumvented this restriction by
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who were living on a bare subsistence level from crossing lines beyond which they hoped to find fodder for their hungry sheep, or for scarce fuel. Additionally, occasional nightly clandestine smuggling occurred between Gaza and Hebron. The smuggling was largely motivated by the great discrepancy in
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The Sheikh's story of the court action was true. On 28 September 1952, under the heading, * 'Bedouin Tribe Moved/' the Israel press announced that "Tribesmen of the Kiderat El Sana Teljaha tribe were last week moved from their former homes at El Laqiya, east of the Beersheba-Hebron road, to a new
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Israeli forces attacked Jalbun village, with small arms, on the 5 December 1949, they then expelled the inhabitants from their village causing fatal casualties amongst the villagers. The Jordanian government strongly protested against unwarranted Israeli action and call on UN secretary General to
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and that a portion of the files are still sealed and a portion "yet to be opened". However their contents would be of interest to researchers of "population transfer" in Israel for this period as the index listing have intriguing titles such as: Expulsion of inhabitants; Transfer of Inhabitants;
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was then redrawn in blue ink on the southern map to give the impression that a movement in the Green line had been made. However, this replacement involved a considerable change of the lines, a change which could not be carried out without inflicting serious hardships upon the population and the
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To prevent future incidents caused by infiltration on the Egyptian ceasefire line and DMZ, the Mixed Armistice Commission finally decided that a system of mixed border patrols comprising officers and enlisted men from each side would decrease tension and lessen infiltration. Initially, the mixed
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being given to Jordanian control. On 15 July when the Israeli Army expelled the population of Wadi Fukin after the village had been transferred to the Israeli-occupied area under the terms of the Armistice Agreement concluded between Israel and the Jordan Kingdom. The Mixed Armistice Commission
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were served with an expulsion order (The Palestinians had been held in a confined area since 1948) and the first group of them were taken on trucks to the Gaza Strip. Majdal was then renamed Ashkelon by the Israelis in an ongoing process of de-Arabisation of the topography as described by Meron
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The long battle had weaken our forces and before us stood great duties of blocking the routes of invasion. We therefore looked for means which did not force us into employing force, in order to cause the tens of thousands of sulky Arab who remained in the Galilee to flee, for in case of an Arab
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to allow them to return to their village. Early in September 1953 the Supreme Court decided that the authorities had to answer to why the inhabitants were not allowed to return home. The result was devastating: on 16 September 1953 the Israeli air force and army in a joint operation bombed the
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During Operation Hiram in the upper Galilee, Israeli military commanders received the order: "Do all you can to immediately and quickly purge the conquered territories of all hostile elements in accordance with the orders issued. The residents should be helped to leave the areas that have been
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In the lake Huleh area, during 1951, Israel initiated a project to drain the marsh land to bring 15,000 acres (61 km) into cultivation. The project caused a conflict of interests between the Palestinian Arab villages in the area, consequently 800 inhabitants of the villages were forcibly
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Noting the complaint with regard to the evacuation of Arab residents from the demilitarized zone: (a) Decides that Arab civilians who have been removed from the demilitarized zone by the Government of Israel should be permitted to return forthwith to their homes and that the Mixed Armistice
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On 16 January 1949, an attempt to move the remaining Palestinian Arab inhabitants of Tarshiha to the neighbouring towns of Mi'ilya and Majd al Kurum was prevented by UN and Christian clerical intercession. Pressure from kibbutz and the military in the Galilee panhandle mounted to remove the
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in Palestine. United Nations observers found that thirteen Arabs, including women and children, had died during the exodus and bodies of several more had been found crushed by armoured vehicles. By 3 September, the number of expelled Arabs had reached 4,071. Most of them had lived in the
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had been expelled and forced across the ceasefire line. The Mixed Armistice Commission decided, by majority vote, that Israel had violated the General Armistice Agreement by driving the civilians across the demarcation line into the territory of the Hashemite Jordan Kingdom.
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30 October 1956 When Israel attacked Egypt across the Sinai peninsula in co-ordination with an Anglo-French attack on Suez. The remainder of the Palestinians living in the DMZs were driven into Syria. The villages of Baqqara and Ghannama now lie as rubble and are empty.
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accepted the expelled civilian Palestinian Arabs from Majdal on humanitarian grounds as they would otherwise have been exposed to "torture and death". That however did not mean their voluntary movement. Furthermore, testimony of the expelled Arabs and reports of the
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for the period of June 1949 through December 1952, Jordan complained of 37 instances of expulsion of Arabs from Israel. For the period 1 January 1953 through to 15 October 1953, Jordan complained of 7 instances of expulsion of Arabs from Israel involving 41 people.
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Israeli security was conceptualized on two levels: general security and daily security. General security covered the threat of invasion while daily security aimed to secure Israeli territory from infiltration. This was achieved by three processes: the transfer of
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acting as their lawyer. On 31 July 1951 the Israeli courts recognised the rights of the villagers to their land and their right to return to it. The court said the land was not abandoned and therefore could not be placed under the custodian of enemy property.
622:, as well as the prime minister's consultant for Arab affairs and the commander-in-chief of military rule. In concert, the committee presided over three regional sub-committees (south, center and north), which dealt with the daily business of governance. 822:. Because the villages were located in an area within 5 km of to the Israel-Lebanon border, they were to be evacuated of their Palestinian Arab population. For security reasons, the Israeli forces wanted the villages populated primarily by 1872:, p. 33: On 15 August 1949; The US consul to Jerusalem had doubts about the value of the Israeli proposal to accept 100,000 refugees. In a letter to the Secretary of State Acheson, the consul, William Burdett, reported on a meeting of the 548:
on 1 August 1948 where the basic attitude of the Israeli government was that a solution must be sought, not through the return of the refugees to Israel, but through the resettlement of the Palestinian Arab refugee population in other states.
838:, originally a resident of Iqrit, relates in his autobiography how in the spring of 1949, the IDF rounded up all the men and older boys in the village (including his own father and three eldest brothers), and trucked them to the border with 1026:"(b) Holds that no action involving the transfer of persons across international frontiers, armistice lines or within the demilitarized zone should be under-taken without prior decision of the Chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commission..." 830:. The villagers of Kafr Bir'im initially sought protection in a nearby cave. Seeing the elderly, women and children living in the cave, the Minister of Police Bechor Sheetrit suggested that the villagers move further south to the town of 834:, where there were 400 abandoned houses, "until the military operations are over". Approximately 700 of the Kafr Bir'em villagers found accommodation within Israel, and the remaining 250 were encouraged to cross into Lebanon. Archbishop 124: 647:
in the Egyptian-controlled territory of the Gaza strip, killing seven civilians and the wounding twenty. Israel complained of infiltration incidents leading to the death of four Israeli settlers and the wounding of twenty others.
618:, it placed this entire population under a tight military regime supervised by the Central Committee for Arab Affairs. Established in 1954, the committee had representatives from the police and the domestic intelligence agency, 3255: 659:) asked the Knesset permission for the 6,000 refugees of Nazareth to return to their surrounding villages; at the same time the IDF were conducting a sweep through the city of Nazareth, rounding up non-residents who the 1085:, Major Itzaq, inform the MAC that the Israelis had expelled ten families of the es-Sani tribe and that they were now situated inside the Jordan border south of Hebron. On 22 September Commander Hutchison USNR of the 544:. Ben-Gurion emphatically rejected the return of refugees in the Israeli Cabinet decision of June 1948. This position is reiterated in a letter to the UN of 2 August 1949 containing the text of a statement made by 2547: 1008:
notify the security council to take prompt and strict measures to return expelled Palestinians to their village, to hand back their looted belongings, and to compensate the villagers for all losses and damages.
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The Israeli government claimed that as an extension of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Arab countries were aiding and abetting infiltrators by using them as guerillas. Some historians consider this claim inaccurate.
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2,500 dunums (625 acres) were purchased. The purchase price was paid in Jordanian currency and the Palestinian Arabs were then transported to the ceasefire line with their luggage and from there transported to
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In March 1949, as Iraqi forces withdrew from Palestine and handed over their positions to the smaller Jordanian legion, three Israeli brigades manoeuvred into threatening positions in Operation
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site at Tel Arad. ... On 15 September, the High Court in Jerusalem issued an order 'nisi* against the Military Governor and the Ministry of Defence against the enforced move of the tribe."
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During anti-infiltration operations, Israeli forces committed atrocities including gang rape, murder and the dumping of 120 suspected infiltrators in the Avara desert without water.
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An example of the use of "rumours" is given where Glazer comments on the use of psychological warfare against civilians and quotes Nafez Nazzal's description of the Galilee exodus:
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area into the Jordanian controlled sector. Before the Palestinian Arabs were expelled they were severely maltreated, their homes destroyed, their cattle, sheep, belongings looted.
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patrols along the Egyptian demarcation line worked satisfactorily. The Egyptian Authorities maintained a policy of "incarcerating" the inhabitants of the Gaza strip until 1955.
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3. The right to settle Jews on all the land within their territory, with the right to develop the economy without having to take into account the rights of the previous owners.
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From November 1948 through the summer of 1949 and the signing of the General Armistice Agreements, an additional 87 villages were occupied, 36 of which were emptied by force.
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From the signing of the General Armistice Agreements in 1949, Jordan and Egypt had complained on many occasions that Israel had been reducing the Arab population of the
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In 1954 Israel "evacuated" the Palestinian villages of Baqqara and Ghannama in the central sector of the Israel/Syria demilitarized zone the Chief of Staff of the
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Ilan Pappé reports that the last gun-point expulsion occurred in 1953 where the residents of Umm al-Faraj were driven out and the village destroyed by the IDF. "
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were expelled across the Jordanian/Israeli ceasefire line as they had moved into Kfar Yassif from the surrounding villages during the period of fighting in 1948.
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According to the Jordanian minister of foreign affairs at the time, on 7 November 1949, Israeli forces expelled two thousand men, women, children from
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forming a Palestinian para-military police force, the Palestinian Border police, in December 1952. The Border police were placed under the command of
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and even Arab villagers across the ceasefire lines into the Egyptian Sinai and the Jordanian held West Bank. Israel had been condemned by the
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in Palestine to the Secretary-General on complaints concerning the observance of the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria
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From 1949 to 1956, an estimated 90% of infiltration was motivated by social and economic concerns. It was naturally difficult to prevent
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put the Western plans for the defence of the Middle East in jeopardy, leading Western powers to apply pressure on Israeli to desist.
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from a position of strength, together with the accompanying risk of condemnation and confrontation with the international community.
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Concentration of Arab Residents; Complaints about Police treatment; Demolition of Arab Houses; and Acts against Civilians.
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20 August 1950 Israeli authorities expelled into Egyptian territory all the Bedouin living in the demilitarized zone of
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The pejorative term 'infiltrator' was also applied to refugee non-residents who had not left Israel, as was the case in
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During the Lausanne Peace Conference the US consul, William Burdett, reported on a meeting of the Jordan/Israel
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The Jewish National Fund under Yosef Weitz actively encouraged Palestinian Arab emigration. In the village of
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The Israeli government was of the view that the armistice agreements gave them three indisputable rights:
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Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956; Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War
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area of the Northern West Bank in a secret agreement reached on 23 March 1949 and incorporated into the
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The expulsion at Wadi Fukin led to a change in the Green line where an exchange of fertile land in the
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in a form of coercive diplomacy. The operation allowed Israel to renegotiate the ceasefire line in the
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The Arab nations conversely also saw the General Armistice Agreements as conferring three rights:
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Letter dated 30 November 1954 Release of absentee or refugee accounts held in banks in Israel.
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The first legal action against the state of Israel was brought in 1951 by 5 men of Iqrit with
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to leave to Syria...The villagers heard how ruthless and cruel the Jews were to the people of
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which dealt with a case where 1,000 (UN estimates 1,500) Palestinian Arab inhabitants of
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village until it was completely destroyed. At the same time it was announced that 1,170
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Security Council Resolution 100 of 27 October 1953 Suspension of Drainage/Water works
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Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement 1949-1993
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The method of planting false atrocity stories to engineer an exodus is borne out by
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2. The ceasefire line should be treated as an international border, pending full
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The Politics of Partition; King Abdullah, The Zionists, and Palestine 1921-1951
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Violent Truce: A Military Observer Looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1951 1955
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made a report in January 1955 to the United Nations where it was decided that:
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1. The ceasefire was binding on regular armies, irregular forces and civilians.
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and the growing tension along ceasefire lines that ultimately lead to the 1956
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The problem of establishing and guarding the demarcation line separating the
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3. The Armistice Agreements did not cancel out the refugees right of return.
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Israel argued this was motivated by security considerations linked with the
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2. The ceasefire lines were temporary and were not an international border.
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1. The agreements were a truce and therefore did not end the state of war.
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from Israeli-controlled territory that occurred after the signing of the
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In 1953 the (by now former) inhabitants of Kafr Bir'im pleaded to the
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away from the ceasefire lines to urban areas of concentration such as
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of land belonging to the village had been expropriated by the state.
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Palestinian inhabitants of the area. On 5/6 June the inhabitants of
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David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel and the Arab world 1949-1956
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original point of crossing, on the Hebron-Beersheba road.
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Index

Palestinians

Demographics
Definitions
Palestine
History
Name
People
Origin
Nakba
Diaspora
Politics
Arab Higher Committee
Depopulated villages
All-Palestine Protectorate
Government
Fedayeen militias
PLO
National Authority (PNA)
political parties
Fatah
Hamas
PFLP
Islamic Jihad
Politics of the Palestinian National Authority
Enclaves
Governorates
Cities
Gaza Strip governance (Hamas)
Governorates of the Gaza Strip

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