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سقوط حيفا وتهجير أهلها
Exact day21 April 1948
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.Attacks on Haifa beginning on 21 April 1948 drove out the city’s 55,000 remaining Palestinians, who left by sea for Lebanon.
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that the terrorization of Haifa’s Palestinian residents began in December 1947, and that attacks on the city beginning on 21 April 1948 prompted a mass exodus of its 55,000 remaining Palestinians, who sailed to Lebanon.1
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Within a yearThe Nakba, The Mandate ends; Israel is declared, The UN partition plan, Plan Dalet, UN resolution 194: the right of return
Evidence
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Highlight text (Maher Charif)
Editorial paraphrase · enAttacks on Haifa beginning on 21 April prompted a mass exodus of the city’s 55,000 remaining Palestinians, who sailed to Lebanon.
Link to this citationarticle · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
Maher Charif, “The Nakba”, Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies).
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