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سقوط يافا وطرد أهلها
Exact day13 May 1948
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 13 May 1948, after three weeks of siege, Jaffa fell to Haganah and Irgun forces, and all of its 50,000 inhabitants were expelled.
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that Haganah and Irgun fighters attacked Jaffa in mid-April 1948 and imposed a blockade; the city’s people held out for three weeks, until it fell to the attackers on 13 May and all of its 50,000 inhabitants were expelled.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)
Original-language quotation · enthe city fell to the attackers on 13 May, and all of its 50,000 inhabitants were expelledLink 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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