1948 Palestinian exodus
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"Israel claims that the Arabs left because they were ordered to, and deliberately incited into panic, by their own leaders who wanted the field cleared for the 1948 war" or "The Arabs charge that their people were evicted at bayonet-point and by panic deliberately incited by the Zionists?" --Erskine Childers, 1961[1] "The Arabs of Palestine now enter their fourteenth year of exile. If you go among them in the hills of Judea, they will take you by the arm to a crest of land and point downwards, across the rusty skeins of barbed wire. 'Can you see it— over there beside those trees? That is my home.'" --Erskine Childers, 1961[2] |
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The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba (al-Nakbah, literally "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war.
The status of the refugees, and in particular whether Israel will grant them their claimed right to return to their homes or be compensated, are key issues in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The events of 1948 are commemorated by Palestinians both in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere on 15 May, a date now known as Nakba Day.
See also
- 1948 Palestine war
- Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
- 1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle
- 1949–56 Palestinian exodus
- 1967 Palestinian exodus
- Palestinian exodus from Kuwait (Gulf War)
- Arab diaspora
- Palestinian diaspora
- Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50)
- History of Palestine (region)#Post-Mandate
- List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
- New Historians
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the events
