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Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war

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During the 1948 Palestine war, massacres and acts of terror were conducted by and against both sides. A campaign of massacres and violence against the Arab population – such as occurred in the expulsions from Lydda and Ramle and the Fall of Haifa – led to the expulsion and flight of over 700,000 Palestinians, with most of their urban areas being depopulated and destroyed. This violence and dispossession of the Palestinians is known today as the Nakba (Arabic for "the disaster").

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1948, the property fight, and the Jewish side of the ledger
The article's own definition changed. It once opened as “a list of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war” with a stated definition of the word. Today it opens by saying massacres and acts of terror “were conducted by and against both sides” and then describes only “a campaign of massacres and violence against the Arab population”.
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