Causes of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight

Part of a series on the
Nakba
Precipitating events Background Mandatory Palestine 1947 partition plan 1948 Palestine war Civil war in Palestine Plan Dalet Deir Yassin massacre Battle of Haifa Israeli Declaration of Independence Arab–Israeli War Timeline Expulsion from Lydda and Ramle Transfer Committee
1948 expulsion and flight Palestinian refugees Camps Palestinian return to Israel Right of return Present absentee UN Resolution 194 UNRWA Geographic erasure Paraguay plan
Discourse Causes New Historians Nakba denial Ongoing Nakba Palestinian genocide accusation
Notable writers Aref al-Aref Yoav Gelber Efraim Karsh Rashid Khalidi Walid Khalidi Nur Masalha Benny Morris Ilan Pappé Edward Said Tom Segev Avraham Sela Avi Shlaim Constantin Zureiq
Symbols and memory Key Handala Nakba Day Land Day Great March of Return March of Return (Israel)
Lists List of depopulated towns and villages List of estimates
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During the 1948 Palestine war in which the State of Israel was established, around 700,000^{[fn 1]} Palestinian Arabs, or 85% of the total population of the territory Israel captured fled or were expelled from their homes.^[1] The causes of this mass displacement are a matter of controversy among historians, journalists, and commentators.

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