The word “refugee” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 2 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “refugee” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2.
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Internally displaced Palestinians is a term used to refer to Arab Palestinians and their descendants, who became internally displaced refugees or 'Internal Refugees' or 'Present Absentees' in the state of Israel after the 1948 war. After the war many thousands of them moved to nearby villages. In some cases these refugees petitioned to return to their villages. Ein Rafa Populated by Palestinians from Suba now Tzova . Ein Karem Populated by one Palestinian Christian family from Bassa village. Nazareth More than half the population is made up of internal refugees, some of them Christian Palestinians from Safed , Baysan and Tiberias . Umm al-Fahm Jish Some of the Population came from the Christian Palestinian villages of Iqrit and Kafr Bir'im Tuba-Zangariyye Some of the population, or perhaps all, from Arab Tuba and Arab Zangaria moved to this location after 1948.1
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Population shifts in Israel after 1948 refers to the movement of Jewish and Arab populations in the wake of Israeli independence and the outbreak of the 1948 War .Arab villagers who resettled in other locations in Israel after 1948 are often referred to as internally displaced Palestinians .Many fled during the war but later returned to their homes.The Palestinians say that Israelis drove them from out while Israel says most left of their own accord.From 1948 to 1951, mass immigration nearly doubled Israel's Jewish population.Ghosts of 1948 haunt Gaza crisis Immigration and asylum: From 1900 to the present, Volume 1, Matthew J.
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“refugee” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2. Read the current article and compare.
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