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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

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

726,000 according to the Final Report of the United Nations Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East published by the United Nations Conciliation Commission, December 28, 1949.^[1]^{[note 1]}
711,000 according to the General Progress Report and Supplementary Report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Covering the Period from 11 December 1949 to 23 October 1950, published by the United Nations Conciliation Commission, October 23, 1950.^[5]^{[note 2]}

Estimates of total number of people who registered as refugees

800,000 – 900,000 according to the Historical Survey of Efforts of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine to Secure the Implementation of Paragraph 11 of General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) published by the United Nations Conciliation Commission, October 2, 1961.^[6]
875,998 refugees in June 1951, according to the Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, September 28, 1951.^[7]^{[note 3]}
914,000 refugees in 1950, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency website.^[9]^{[note 4]}
957,000 refugees in 1950 according to the Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East published by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, September 28, 1951.^[7]^{[note 5]}

Other estimates of flight or refugees

550,000 − 600,000 According to an Israeli government estimate (according to Efraim Karsh^[10])
539,000 According to Walter Pinner ^[11]
583,000 – 609,000 According to Efraim Karsh^[10]
600,000 According to Joseph B. Schechtman^[12]
630,000 According to Yoram Ettinger^[13]
700,000± According to Benny Morris in his book "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited"^[14]
720,000 According to Irving Howe and Carl Gershman^[15]^{[better source needed]}
750,000 According to Ilan Pappé^[16]
800,000 According to Elia Zureik (750,000 – 800,000 "Private Palestinian sources", 800,000 – 900,000 "Palestinian figures", 850,000 "United Nations estimate")^{[citation needed]}
800,000± According to Baha Abushaqra^[17]
800,000 – Walter Eytan, in a private letter of 1950 referred to the UNRWA registration in 1949 as "meticulous", but thought that "the real number was close to 800,000".^[18]
804,767 According to Salman Abu-Sitta^[19]^{[note 6]}
900,000 According to Abdel-Azim Hammad^[20]
935,000 According to Salman Abu-Sitta^[21]
almost 1 000,000 According to the 3rd edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (author of the article — Galina Stepanovna Nikitina).^[22]

Interim estimates

Interim estimates from UN sources:

Sir Raphael Cilento, director of the UN Disaster Relief Project (DRP): 300,000 − 350,000 in August^[10]
360,000 in September, 1948, according to the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine published by UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, September 16, 1948.^[23]^{[note 7]}
472,000 in October, 1948, according to the Progress Report of the Acting United Nations Mediator on Palestine published by Acting UN Mediator Ralph Bunche, October 18, 1948.^[24]^{[note 8]}

From other sources:

200,000+ by May, 1948 according to Samuel Katz (in 1973)^[25]^[26]
300,000± by May, 1948 according to Noam Chomsky (in 2002)^[27]
380,000± by 15 May 1948 according to Ilan Pappe (in 1994)^[28]
335,000 by 5 June 1948 according to Yossef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund.^[29]
391,000 by 1 June 1948 according to a report by the Haganah's intelligence service (239,000 from the UN-ascribed Jewish state.)^[10]
200,000 by the mid-June 1948 according to Emil Ghoury.^[10]
300,000± by late July according to W. De St. Aubin, delegate of the League of Red Cross Societies to the Middle East.^[10]
631,967 by October "the Arab League estimate" according to Efraim Karsh.^[10]
460,000 by late October, according to an Israeli study led by Y. Weitz and E. Danin & Z. Lifshitz.^[10]

References

^ "A/AC.25/6/Part.1". United Nations. 28 December 1949. p. 21. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ "Right of return of the Palestinian People – CEIRPP, SUPR study". United Nations. United Nations. 1 November 1978. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ "Anniversaries of significant events in the history of the Palestinian people – Information note". United Nations. 31 December 1987. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ "A/1367/Rev.1". United Nations. 23 October 1950. Archived from the original on 3 June 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ "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.
^ "A/AC.25/W/81/Rev.2". United Nations. 2 October 1961. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b "A/1905". United Nations. 28 September 1951. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ "Who is a Palestine refugee?". UNRWA. Archived from the original on 16 July 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Karsh, Efraim (2011). "How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There?".
^ Pinner, Walter (1959). How Many Arab Refugees: A Critical Study of UNRWA's Statistics and Reports. University of Michigan: Macgibbon & Kee. p. 61.
^ Schechtman, Joseph B. (1952). The Arab Refugee Problem. University of Michigan: Philosophical Library.
^ Ettinger, Yoram (12 February 2001). "The 1948 Palestinian Refugees – Whose Responsibility?". Jerusalem Cloakroom. Ariel Center for Policy Research [he]. Archived from the original on 20 April 2001. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge Middle East Studies. Vol. 18. Cambridge University Press. pp. 602–604.
^ Howe, Irving; Gershman, Carl (1972). Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East. New York: Bantam. p. 168.
^ Pappé, Ilan (October 2006). "The 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine Journal of Palestine Studies". Journal of Palestine Studies. 36 (1): 6–20. doi:10.1525/jps.2006.36.1.6. hdl:10871/15208. S2CID 155363162.
^ Abushaqra, Baha (24 October 2002). "The Palestinian Refugee Problem & the Right of Return". Middle East Journal. Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ 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’."
^ Abu-Sitta, Salman (7 August 2001). "The Unfolding of the Holocaust". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ Hammad, Abdel-Azim (15 July 1999). "Murder, expulsion – and silence". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ "Books: 'From Refugees To Citizens At Home: Al Nakba Anatomy'". Palestine Land Society. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ Израиль // Большая советская энциклопедия : [в 30 т.] / гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. — 3-е изд. — М. : Советская энциклопедия, 1969—1978.
^ U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session, Supplement No. 11, Document A/648
^ UN General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session Supplement No. 11A, Document A/689
^ Katz, Samuel (January 1, 1973). battleground: Fact & Fantasy in Palestine.
^ Katz, Joseph E. (1973). "Arab Refugees and the Right of Return". Retrieved 4 April 2014.
^ Chomsky, Noam (2002). Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky. New Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN 9781565847033.
^ Pappe, Ilan. The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–51. London: I. B. Taurus. pp. 85, 96.
^ David Ben-Gurion, Yoman Hamilhama Tashah-Tashat. Vol. 2. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing House, 1983. p. 487.

[5] 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]

[7] 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."

[11] 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.

[13] Figure does not match official UNRWA estimates submitted to the UN.

[14] Figure later revised down to 876,000 by UNRWA after "many false and duplicate registrations weeded out."^[8]

[25] 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.

[30] Figure refers only to people registered as refugees.

[32] Figure refers only to people registered as refugees.

[1] "A/AC.25/6/Part.1". United Nations. 28 December 1949. p. 21. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[2] "Right of return of the Palestinian People – CEIRPP, SUPR study". United Nations. United Nations. 1 November 1978. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[3] "Anniversaries of significant events in the history of the Palestinian people – Information note". United Nations. 31 December 1987. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[4] "A/1367/Rev.1". United Nations. 23 October 1950. Archived from the original on 3 June 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[6] "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.

[8] "A/AC.25/W/81/Rev.2". United Nations. 2 October 1961. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[A/1905-9] "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.

[UN_28_September_1951-10] "A/1905". United Nations. 28 September 1951. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[12] "Who is a Palestine refugee?". UNRWA. Archived from the original on 16 July 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[Efraim_karsh-15] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Karsh, Efraim (2011). "How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There?".

[16] Pinner, Walter (1959). How Many Arab Refugees: A Critical Study of UNRWA's Statistics and Reports. University of Michigan: Macgibbon & Kee. p. 61.

[17] Schechtman, Joseph B. (1952). The Arab Refugee Problem. University of Michigan: Philosophical Library.

[18] Ettinger, Yoram (12 February 2001). "The 1948 Palestinian Refugees – Whose Responsibility?". Jerusalem Cloakroom. Ariel Center for Policy Research [he]. Archived from the original on 20 April 2001. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[Morris_2004-19] Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge Middle East Studies. Vol. 18. Cambridge University Press. pp. 602–604.

[20] Howe, Irving; Gershman, Carl (1972). Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East. New York: Bantam. p. 168.

[21] Pappé, Ilan (October 2006). "The 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine Journal of Palestine Studies". Journal of Palestine Studies. 36 (1): 6–20. doi:10.1525/jps.2006.36.1.6. hdl:10871/15208. S2CID 155363162.

[22] Abushaqra, Baha (24 October 2002). "The Palestinian Refugee Problem & the Right of Return". Middle East Journal. Archived from the original on 14 June 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[Morris_2004_p602-23] 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’."

[24] Abu-Sitta, Salman (7 August 2001). "The Unfolding of the Holocaust". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[26] Hammad, Abdel-Azim (15 July 1999). "Murder, expulsion – and silence". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[Abu-Sitta-27] "Books: 'From Refugees To Citizens At Home: Al Nakba Anatomy'". Palestine Land Society. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[28] Израиль // Большая советская энциклопедия : [в 30 т.] / гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. — 3-е изд. — М. : Советская энциклопедия, 1969—1978.

[29] U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session, Supplement No. 11, Document A/648

[31] UN General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session Supplement No. 11A, Document A/689

[33] Katz, Samuel (January 1, 1973). battleground: Fact & Fantasy in Palestine.

[34] Katz, Joseph E. (1973). "Arab Refugees and the Right of Return". Retrieved 4 April 2014.

[35] Chomsky, Noam (2002). Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky. New Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN 9781565847033.

[36] Pappe, Ilan. The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–51. London: I. B. Taurus. pp. 85, 96.

[37] David Ben-Gurion, Yoman Hamilhama Tashah-Tashat. Vol. 2. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing House, 1983. p. 487.

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+{{Short description|none}}
-No-one knows exactly how many [[Palestinians]] became [[refugee]]s during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]]. This page lists some of the most notable estimates:
+{{Main|1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight}}
+{{Nakba}}
+{{History of Palestine}}
+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 refugee]]s for that period.
+==UN estimates==
-* 600,000 - 700,000 According to [[Nicole Brackman]] on Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. [http://www.aijac.org.au/updates/Jan-01/150101.html]
-* 630,000 According to Yuval Arnon-Ohana cited on [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s site. [http://www.netanyahu.org/19palrefwhos.html]
-* No more than 650,000 According to [[Mitchell Bard]] on the [[Jewish Virtual Library]] [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/refugees.html]
-* 720,000 According to www.jafi.org citing "Irving Howe and Carl Gershman (eds.), Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East (New York: Bantam, 1972), p. 168." [http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/refuge.html]
-* 726,000 According to the [[United Nations Conciliation Commission]] in [[1949]]. [http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/mepp/new_prrn/background/index.htm]
-* 750,000 According to www.palestinecenter.org. [http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/pubs/19990714ib.html] (1999)
-* 750,000+ According to www.palestinehistory.com. [http://www.palestinehistory.com/ref1948.htm]
-* 800,000- According to [[Al-Ahram Weekly]]. [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/690/profile.htm]
-* 800,000 According to Elia Zureik. [http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/PRRN/papers/zureik2.html]
-* 800,000 According to www.mideastjournal.com. [http://www.mideastjournal.com/rightofreturn.html]
-* 804,767 According to www.ifamericansknew.com quoting [[Salman Abu-Sitta]]. [http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-qumsiyeh.html]
-* 900,000+ According to www.humanrightshouse.org. [http://www.humanrightshouse.org/dllvis5.asp?id=2028]
-* 900,000 According to Abdel-Azim Hammad on Al-Ahram Weekly. [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/438/op2.htm] (1999)
-* 935,000 According to www.caabu.org citing [[Salman Abu-Sitta]]. [http://www.caabu.org/press/articles/tarbush-abu-sitta.html]
-* 914,000 Registered Palestinian Refugees in [[1950]]. According to the [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency]] [http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/whois.html] (1950)
-* 957,000 According to the [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency]] in [[1950]] quoted in [http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/mepp/new_prrn/background/index.htm]. (1950)
+===Estimate of number of people who left or fled the area captured by Israel===
-Unreferenced estimates:
+* 726,000 according to the ''Final Report of the United Nations Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East'' published by the [[United Nations Conciliation Commission]], December 28, 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/C2A078FC4065D30285256DF30068D278|title=A/AC.25/6/Part.1|date=28 December 1949|publisher=[[United Nations]]|page=21|accessdate=4 April 2014}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|This estimate by the UN Conciliation Commission has been repeated in a number of other UN documents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/805c731452035912852569d1005c1201?OpenDocument|title=Right of return of the Palestinian People – CEIRPP, SUPR study|date=1 November 1978|work=[[United Nations]]|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060154/http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/805c731452035912852569d1005c1201?OpenDocument|archivedate=21 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/3c5de9979eb7072f85256e9900639833?OpenDocument|title=Anniversaries of significant events in the history of the Palestinian people – Information note|date=31 December 1987|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060330/http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/3c5de9979eb7072f85256e9900639833?OpenDocument|archivedate=21 September 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/93037e3b939746de8525610200567883|title=A/1367/Rev.1|date=23 October 1950|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014|archive-date=3 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050907/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/93037e3b939746de8525610200567883|url-status=dead}}</ref>|group=note}}
-* www.mideastweb.org mentions 520,200 "Israeli estimates", 726,000 "UN estimates" and 800,000 "Arab estimates". [http://www.mideastweb.org/refugees1.htm]
+* 711,000 according to the ''General Progress Report and Supplementary Report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Covering the Period from 11 December 1949 to 23 October 1950,'' published by the [[United Nations Conciliation Commission]], October 23, 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/93037E3B939746DE8525610200567883|title=U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 5th Session, Supplement No. 18, Document A/1367/Rev. 1|date=23 October 1950|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|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."|group=note}}
-* Elia Zureik on Palestinian Refugee Research Net mentions 400,000 "Israeli government estimate", 800,000 - 900,000 "Palestinian figures", 850,000 "United Nations estimate", 750,000 - 800,000 "Private Palestinian sources", 600,000 "Private Israeli sources". [http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/mepp/new_prrn/research/papers/zureik.htm]
-* www.palestinefacts.org estimates between 540,000 - 720,000 [http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_refugees_arabs_what.php]
+===Estimates of total number of people who registered as refugees===
+* 800,000 – 900,000 according to the ''Historical Survey of Efforts of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine to Secure the Implementation of Paragraph 11 of General Assembly Resolution 194 (III)'' published by the [[United Nations Conciliation Commission]], October 2, 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/3e61557f8de6781a052565910073e819?OpenDocument|title=A/AC.25/W/81/Rev.2|date=2 October 1961|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407094900/http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/3e61557f8de6781a052565910073e819?OpenDocument|archivedate=7 April 2014}}</ref>
+* 875,998 refugees in June 1951, according to the ''Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East'' published by the [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency]], September 28, 1951.<ref name="A/1905">{{cite web|url=https://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/8D26108AF518CE7E052565A6006E8948|title=U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 6th Session, Supplement No. 16, Document A/1905|date=28 September 1951|work=[[United Nations]]|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|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".<ref name="UN 28 September 1951">{{cite web|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/181c4bf00c44e5fd85256cef0073c426/8d26108af518ce7e052565a6006e8948|title=A/1905|date=28 September 1951|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=4 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407095842/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/181c4bf00c44e5fd85256cef0073c426/8d26108af518ce7e052565a6006e8948|archivedate=7 April 2014}}</ref> The figure includes descendants of the Palestinian refugees born after the [[1948 Palestinian exodus|Palestinian exodus]] up to June 1951.|group=note}}
+* 914,000 refugees in 1950, according to the [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency]] website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/whois.html|title=Who is a Palestine refugee?|publisher=[[UNRWA]]|accessdate=4 April 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716103007/http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/whois.html|archivedate=16 July 2009}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Figure does not match official UNRWA estimates submitted to the UN.|group=note}}
+* 957,000 refugees in 1950 according to the ''Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East'' published by the [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency]], September 28, 1951.<ref name="A/1905" />{{#tag:ref|Figure later revised down to 876,000 by [[UNRWA]] after "many false and duplicate registrations weeded out."<ref name="UN 28 September 1951" />|group=note}}
+==Other estimates of flight or refugees==
+* 550,000 − 600,000 According to an Israeli government estimate (according to [[Efraim Karsh]]<ref name="Efraim_karsh">{{cite news|last=Karsh|first=Efraim|title=How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There?|url=http://www.meforum.org/2875/how-many-palestinian-arab-refugees|year=2011}}</ref>)
+* 539,000 According to Walter Pinner <ref>{{cite book|last=Pinner|first=Walter|title=How Many Arab Refugees: A Critical Study of UNRWA's Statistics and Reports|year=1959|publisher=Macgibbon & Kee|location=University of Michigan|page=61}}</ref>
+* 583,000 – 609,000 According to Efraim Karsh<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+* 600,000 According to [[Joseph B. Schechtman]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Schechtman|first=Joseph B.|authorlink=Joseph B. Schechtman|title=The Arab Refugee Problem|year=1952|publisher=Philosophical Library|location=University of Michigan}}</ref>
+* 630,000 According to Yoram Ettinger<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acpr.org.il/cloakrm/clk99.html|title=The 1948 Palestinian Refugees – Whose Responsibility?|last=Ettinger|first=Yoram|date=12 February 2001|work=Jerusalem Cloakroom|publisher={{ill|Ariel Center for Policy Research|he|מרכז אריאל למחקרי מדיניות}}|accessdate=4 April 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010420145732/http://acpr.org.il/cloakrm/clk99.html|archivedate=20 April 2001}}</ref>
+* 700,000± According to [[Benny Morris]] in his book "''The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited''"<ref name="Morris 2004">{{cite book|last=Morris|first=Benny|title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|series=Cambridge Middle East Studies|volume=18|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=602–604}}</ref>
+* 720,000 According to Irving Howe and Carl Gershman<ref>{{cite book|last1=Howe|first1=Irving|last2=Gershman|first2=Carl|title=Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East|year=1972|publisher=Bantam|location=New York|page=168}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=estimate not in the source|date=October 2015}}
+* 750,000 According to [[Ilan Pappé]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=The 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine Journal of Palestine Studies|url=http://jps.ucpress.edu/content/36/1/6|last=Pappé|first=Ilan|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |date=October 2006|volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=6–20 |doi=10.1525/jps.2006.36.1.6 |hdl=10871/15208 |s2cid=155363162 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
+* 800,000 According to Elia Zureik (750,000 – 800,000 "Private Palestinian sources", 800,000 – 900,000 "Palestinian figures", 850,000 "United Nations estimate"){{citation needed|date=October 2015}}
+* 800,000± According to Baha Abushaqra<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mideastjournal.com/rightofreturn|title=The Palestinian Refugee Problem & the Right of Return|last=Abushaqra|first=Baha|date=24 October 2002|publisher=Middle East Journal|accessdate=4 April 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614151054/http://www.mideastjournal.com/rightofreturn|archivedate=14 June 2006}}</ref>
+* 800,000 – [[Walter Eytan]], in a private letter of 1950 referred to the UNRWA registration in 1949 as "meticulous", but thought that "the real number was close to 800,000".<ref name="Morris 2004 p602">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’."</ref>
+* 804,767 According to [[Salman Abu-Sitta]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Right-Of-Return/Story433.html|title=The Unfolding of the Holocaust|last=Abu-Sitta|first=Salman|authorlink=Salman Abu-Sitta|date=7 August 2001|work=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=4 April 2014}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|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.|group=note}}
+* 900,000 According to Abdel-Azim Hammad<ref>{{cite web|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/438/op2.htm|title=Murder, expulsion – and silence|last=Hammad|first=Abdel-Azim|date=15 July 1999|work=Al-Ahram Weekly|accessdate=4 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716190435/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/438/op2.htm|archivedate=16 July 2012}}</ref>
+* 935,000 According to [[Salman Abu-Sitta]]<ref name="Abu-Sitta">{{cite web|url=http://www.plands.org/books/book%2001-03.html|title=Books: 'From Refugees To Citizens At Home: Al Nakba Anatomy'|publisher=Palestine Land Society|accessdate=4 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922083004/http://www.plands.org/books/book%2001-03.html|archivedate=22 September 2015}}</ref>
+* almost 1 000,000 According to the 3rd edition of the [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] (author of the article — [[Galina Stepanovna Nikitina]]).<ref>Израиль // Большая советская энциклопедия : [в 30 т.] / гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. — 3-е изд. — М. : Советская энциклопедия, 1969—1978.</ref>
+==Interim estimates==
+Interim estimates from UN sources:
+* Sir [[Raphael Cilento]], director of the [[United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs|UN Disaster Relief Project]] (DRP): 300,000 − 350,000 in August<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+* 360,000 in September, 1948, according to the ''[[Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine]]'' published by UN Mediator Count [[Folke Bernadotte]], September 16, 1948.<ref>U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session, Supplement No. 11, Document A/648</ref>{{#tag:ref|Figure refers only to people registered as refugees.|group=note}}
+* 472,000 in October, 1948, according to the ''Progress Report of the Acting United Nations Mediator on Palestine'' published by Acting UN Mediator [[Ralph Bunche]], October 18, 1948.<ref>UN General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session Supplement No. 11A, Document A/689</ref>{{#tag:ref|Figure refers only to people registered as refugees.|group=note}}
+From other sources:
+* 200,000+ by May, 1948 according to Samuel Katz (in 1973)<ref>{{cite book|title=battleground: Fact & Fantasy in Palestine|last=Katz|first=Samuel|date=January 1, 1973}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/refugees.html|title=Arab Refugees and the Right of Return|last=Katz|first=Joseph E.|year=1973|accessdate=4 April 2014}}</ref>
+* 300,000± by May, 1948 according to [[Noam Chomsky]] (in 2002)<ref>{{cite book|last=Chomsky|first=Noam|authorlink=Noam Chomsky|title=Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky|year=2002|publisher=New Press|isbn=9781565847033|pages=[https://archive.org/details/understandingpow00chom_0/page/131 131]–132|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/understandingpow00chom_0}}</ref>
+* 380,000± by 15 May 1948 according to [[Ilan Pappe]] (in 1994)<ref>{{cite book|last=Pappe|first=Ilan|title=The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–51|publisher=I. B. Taurus|location=London|pages=85, 96}}</ref>
+* 335,000 by 5 June 1948 according to [[Yossef Weitz]]  of the [[Jewish National Fund]].<ref>{{cite book|title=David Ben-Gurion, Yoman Hamilhama Tashah-Tashat |publisher=Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing House, 1983|volume= 2|page= 487}}</ref>
+* 391,000 by 1 June 1948 according to a report by the [[Haganah]]'s intelligence service (239,000 from the UN-ascribed Jewish state.)<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+* 200,000 by the mid-June 1948 according to [[Emil Ghoury]].<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+* 300,000± by late July according to W. De St. Aubin, delegate of the [[League of Red Cross Societies]] to the Middle East.<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+* 631,967 by October "[[the Arab League]] estimate" according to Efraim Karsh.<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+* 460,000 by late October, according to an Israeli study led by Y. Weitz and E. Danin & Z. Lifshitz.<ref name="Efraim_karsh" />
+==See also==
+* [[1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight]]
+* [[:Category:1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight|1948 Palestinian exodus articles]]
+* [[:Category:Palestinian refugees|Palestinian refugee articles]]
+===Footnotes===
+{{Reflist|group=note|2}}
+==References==
+{{reflist|30em}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Estimates Of The Palestinian Refugee Flight Of 1948}}
+[[Category:1940s in All-Palestine (Gaza)]]
+[[Category:1948 in Mandatory Palestine]]
+[[Category:1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight]]
+[[Category:Palestinian refugees]]