Naksa - Wikipedia A Palestinian refugee in the Jaramana refugee camp in Syria, 1974 The Naksa (Arabic: النكسة, "the setback") [1] was the displacement of around 280,000 to 325,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, when the territories were captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War [2]
The Naksa: How Israel occupied the whole of Palestine in 1967 By the end of the war, Israel had expelled another 300,000 Palestinians from their homes, including 130,000 who were displaced in 1948, and gained territory that was three and a half times its
The Nakba: how the Palestinians were expelled from Israel Most of the indigenous Palestinian population, an estimated 750,000 people who lived on 77 8% of the land in Palestine – which later became Israel – were expelled from their homes or fled as a
The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined , by Dominique . . . The ensuing Arab-Israeli war ended with Israel expanding its share of the land by a third, while what remained to the Arabs was occupied by Egypt and Jordan Several thousand Palestinians fled their homes, becoming the refugees at the heart of the conflict Israel has always denied that they were expelled, either forcibly or as a matter of policy
Palestine - Occupation, Refugees, Conflict | Britannica Palestine - Occupation, Refugees, Conflict: If one chief theme in the post-1948 pattern was embattled Israel and a second the hostility of its Arab neighbors, a third was the plight of the huge number of Arab refugees The violent birth of Israel led to a major displacement of the Arab population, who either were driven out by Zionist military forces before May 15, 1948, or by the Israeli army
How Six Days in 1967 Shaped the Modern Middle East Once the Arabs conceded Israeli control of the 78 percent of Mandatory Palestine that Israel held prior to the 1967 war, the Palestinians, whose entire strategy had been premised on entangling the
A Brief History of Israels Expulsion Policies — Palestine Nexus Meanwhile, the state of Israel continued to expel Palestinians even after the fighting had ended From November 1948 through the final agreement with Syria Lebanon in the summer of 1949, Israeli focused expelled the residents of another 36 Palestinian villages Then, in 1967, war returned to Palestine, and so did the mass expulsions