1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle
The Lydda Death March took place during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Beginning on 12 July 1948, on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin, some 70,000 Palestinian Arabs from the Lydda and Al-Ramla were expelled by Israeli forces.[1][2] Norman Finkelstein specualtes that "perhaps" 350 people died over the three-day journey that followed, primarily from exhaustion and dehydration. Some particapnat allege that Israeli forces shot over their heads intermittently along the way to keep them moving.[3][4]
The majority of the survivors conglomerated in a refugee camp in Ramallah.[5] United Nations official Count Bernadotte visited the camp in July 1948 and said: "I have made the acquaintance of a great many refugee camps in my life but never have I seen a more ghastly site."[6]
References
- ^ Holmes et al., 2001, p. 64.
- ^ Prior, 1999, p. 205.
- ^ Father Audeh Rantisi (May 1998). "Would I ever see my home again?" (Special edition commemorating 50 Years of Arab Dispossession since the creation of the State of Israel ed.). Al-Ahram.
- ^ Finkelstein, 2003, p. 55.
- ^ Audeh G. Rantisi and Charles Amash (July–August 2000). "Death March". Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU). Retrieved 2009-04-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Thomas, 1999, p. 288.
Bibliography
- Finkelstein, Norman G. (2003), Image and reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict (2nd, revised ed.), Verso, ISBN 1859844421, 9781859844427
{{citation}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help) - Holmes, Richard; Strachan, Hew; Bellamy, Chris; Bicheno, Hugh (2001), The Oxford companion to military history (Illustrated ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198662092, 9780198662099
{{citation}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help) - Prior, Michael P. (1999), Zionism and the state of Israel: a moral inquiry (Illustrated ed.), Routledge, ISBN 0415204623, 9780415204620
{{citation}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help) - Thomas (1999), How Israel was won: a concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict (Illustrated ed.), Lexington Books, ISBN 0739100645, 9780739100646
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