Summary
The bracketed author of the June 30, 1948 report Migration of Eretz Yisrael Arabs between December 1, 1947 and June 1, 1948, which counts 391,000 Arabs displaced by June 1, 1948 and attributes some 70% of residents’ leaving to Jewish military action by the Haganah and the Dissidents (The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, PDF p.1-2, 5). The report speaks in the first person of those forces — “our actions”, “our forces”, “our whispering operations” — and its original record is held in the Hashomer Hatza’ir (Yad Yaari) Archive, file 95-35.27(3) (PDF p.1).
Details
- The report’s purpose is to evaluate the intensity of the Arab migration of December 1947 to June 1948, its phases, its causes and its trajectories, with a stated margin of error of ten to fifteen percent (PDF p.1).
- Its causal ranking puts direct Jewish hostile actions first, their impact on neighbouring communities second and the Dissidents’ actions third; Arab orders and directives are weighted at some 5% of villages (PDF p.4-6).
- Its annex charts every evacuated village by district with date, cause and trajectory, including villages emptied on Haganah orders or by expulsion (PDF p.12-29).
Related pages
The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948, Haganah, Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, Hashomer Hatza’ir