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The '''1967 Palestinian exodus''' or '''Naksa''' (literally "setback"){{sfn|Shaked|2022|p=7}} refers to the flight of around 280,000 to 325,000 [[Palestinian people|Palestinians]]{{sfn|Bowker|2003|p=81}} out of the territories captured by [[Israel]] during and in the aftermath of the [[Six-Day War]], including the razing of numerous Palestinian villages.
The '''1967 Palestinian exodus''' or '''Naksa''' (literally "setback"){{sfn|Shaked|2022|p=7}} refers to the flight of around 280,000 to 325,000 [[Palestinian people|Palestinians]]{{sfn|Bowker|2003|p=81}} out of the territories captured by [[Israel]] during and in the aftermath of the [[Six-Day War]], including the razing of numerous Palestinian villages of [[Imwas]], [[Yalo]], and [[Bayt Nuba]], Surit, [[Beit Awwa]], Beit Mirsem, [[Shuyukh]], [[Al-Jiftlik]], Agarith and Huseirat and the "emptying" of the refugee camps of [[Aqabat Jaber]] and ʿ[[Ein as-Sultan]].{{sfn|Gerson|1978|p=162}}


==History==
==History==
The 1967 Palestinian exodus or Naksa{{sfn|Shaked|2022|p=7}} refers to the flight of around 280,000 to 325,000 [[Palestinian people|Palestinians]]{{sfn|Bowker|2003|p=81}} out of the territories captured by [[Israel]] during and in the aftermath of the [[Six-Day War]], including the razing of the Palestinian villages of [[Imwas]], [[Yalo]], and [[Bayt Nuba]], Surit, [[Beit Awwa]], Beit Mirsem, [[Shuyukh]], [[Al-Jiftlik]], Agarith and Huseirat and the "emptying" of the refugee camps of [[Aqabat Jaber]] and ʿ[[Ein as-Sultan]].{{sfn|Gerson|1978|p=162}}

Approximately 145,000 of the 1967 [[Palestinian refugee]]s were refugees from the [[1948 Palestine War]].<ref name=mcdowall84>{{harvnb|McDowall|1989|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YWorYnKGZ5YC&q=84 84]}}</ref> By December 1967, 245,000 had fled from the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] further into [[Jordan]], 11,000 had fled from the Gaza Strip further into [[Egypt]] and 116,000 Palestinians and [[Syrian people|Syrians]] had fled from the [[Golan Heights]] further into Syria.<ref name=mcdowall84/>
Approximately 145,000 of the 1967 [[Palestinian refugee]]s were refugees from the [[1948 Palestine War]].<ref name=mcdowall84>{{harvnb|McDowall|1989|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YWorYnKGZ5YC&q=84 84]}}</ref> By December 1967, 245,000 had fled from the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] further into [[Jordan]], 11,000 had fled from the Gaza Strip further into [[Egypt]] and 116,000 Palestinians and [[Syrian people|Syrians]] had fled from the [[Golan Heights]] further into Syria.<ref name=mcdowall84/>



Revision as of 21:06, 7 November 2023

The 1967 Palestinian exodus or Naksa (literally "setback")[1] refers to the flight of around 280,000 to 325,000 Palestinians[2] out of the territories captured by Israel during and in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, including the razing of numerous Palestinian villages of Imwas, Yalo, and Bayt Nuba, Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem, Shuyukh, Al-Jiftlik, Agarith and Huseirat and the "emptying" of the refugee camps of Aqabat Jaber and ʿEin as-Sultan.[3]

History

Approximately 145,000 of the 1967 Palestinian refugees were refugees from the 1948 Palestine War.[4] By December 1967, 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip further into Jordan, 11,000 had fled from the Gaza Strip further into Egypt and 116,000 Palestinians and Syrians had fled from the Golan Heights further into Syria.[4]

A United Nations Special Committee heard allegations of the destruction of over 400 Arab villages, but no evidence in corroboration was furnished to the Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the population of the occupied territories.[a]

Until 1967, roughly half of all Palestinians still lived within the boundaries of former Mandatory Palestine, but the majority lived outside the territory from 1967.[4]

A 1971 United Nations report stated that: "On the basis of the testimony placed before it or obtained by it in the course of its investigations, the Special Committee had been led to conclude that the Government of Israel is deliberately carrying out policies aimed at preventing the population of the occupied territories from returning to their homes and forcing those who are in their homes in the occupied territories to leave, either by direct means such as deportation or indirectly by attempts at undermining their morale or through the offer of special inducements, all with the ultimate object of annexing and settling the occupied territories. The Special Committee considers the acts of the Government of Israel in furtherance of these policies to be the most serious violation of human rights that has come to its attention. The evidence shows that this situation has deteriorated since the last mission of the Special Committee in 1970."[5]

After the psychological warfare unit made a visit to Qalqilya and many of the residents had fled, the UN representative Nils-Göran Gussing noted that 850 of the town's 2,000 houses were demolished.[6]

Commemmoration

The Naksa is commemorated annually on Naksa Day, a day of remembrance for the events of the 1967 displacement.[7]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Para 57: appearing in the Sunday Times (London) on 11 October 1970, where reference is made not only to the villages of Jalou, Beit Nuba, and Imwas, also referred to by the Special Committee in its first report, but in addition to villages like Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem and El-Shuyoukh in the Hebron area and Jiflik, Agarith and Huseirat, in the Jordan Valley. The Special Committee has ascertained that all these villages have been completely destroyed. Para 58: the village of Nebi Samwil was in fact destroyed by Israeli armed forces on March 22, 1971.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ Shaked 2022, p. 7.
  2. ^ Bowker 2003, p. 81.
  3. ^ Gerson 1978, p. 162.
  4. ^ a b c McDowall 1989, p. 84
  5. ^ a b Thant 1971.
  6. ^ Segev 2007, p. 405.
  7. ^ Mohammed Zaatari (31 May 2011). "Army may prevent June 5 protesters reaching border fence". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2011.

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