Estimates of the Palestinian Refugee flight of 1948
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This article lists the various interim and final United Nations
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 estimates for the number of Palestinian people
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 who fled or were expelled from the area that became part of the State of Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
1948 Arab-Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

. It also provides other interim and final estimates for the number of Palestinian refugees for that period.

Final estimates

  • 726,000 according to the Final Report of the United Nations Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East published by the United Nations Conciliation Commission
    United Nations Conciliation Commission
    The United Nations Conciliation Commission was created by UN General Assembly Resolution 194, in order to conclude the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.On December 11, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the proposal to set up the committee with delegates of three nations. France, Turkey and the United...

    , December 28, 1949. http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/C2A078FC4065D30285256DF30068D278 (A/AC.25/6/Part.1 p. 21)
  • 711,000 according to the General Progress Report and Supplementary Report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Covering the Period from 11 December 1949 to 23 October 1950, published by the United Nations Conciliation Commission
    United Nations Conciliation Commission
    The United Nations Conciliation Commission was created by UN General Assembly Resolution 194, in order to conclude the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.On December 11, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the proposal to set up the committee with delegates of three nations. France, Turkey and the United...

    , October 23, 1950. (U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 5th Session, Supplement No. 18, Document A/1367/Rev. 1) http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/93037e3b939746de8525610200567883

Interim estimates

  • Emil Ghoury (Telegraph Beirut, September 1948) : 200,000 in June 1948, 300,000 in July 1948.
  • 360,000 in September, 1948, according to the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine
    Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine
    The Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine is a UN official record submitted by the United Nations Mediator on Palestine to the Third Session of the General Assembly...

    published by UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte
    Folke Bernadotte
    Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945...

    , September 16, 1948. (U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session, Supplement No. 11, Document A/648)
  • 472,000 in October, 1948, according to the Progress Report of the Acting United Nations Mediator on Palestine published by Acting UN Mediator Ralph Bunche
    Ralph Bunche
    Ralph Johnson Bunche or 1904December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize...

    , October 18, 1948. (UN General Assembly Official Records, 3rd Session Supplement No. 11A, Document A/689)

Estimates of total number of people who registered as refugees


Final


Interim

  • 200,000+ by May, 1948 according to Joseph E. Katz on www.eretzyisroel.org. http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/refugees.html
  • 250,000 by May, 1948 according to www.mideastweb.org http://www.mideastweb.org/refugees1.htm
  • 300,000 by May, 1948 according to Noam Chomsky pp. 131-132 Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky http://www.representativepress.org/Sources.html
  • 380,000 by 15 May 1948 according to Dr. Ilan Pappe of Haifa University, "The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-51", London: I.B. Tauris, 1992. pp. 85, 96
  • 500,000 by June, 1948 according to Salman Abu-Sitta
    Salman Abu-Sitta
    Salman H. Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian right of return.-Biography:Abu-Sitta was born in Beersheba Salman H. Abu Sitta (Arabic سلمان ابو ستة)(born 1938) is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and the...

     (From Refugees to Citizen at Home: Al Naqba Anatomy http://www.plands.org/books/citizen/Al_Nakba_Anatomy.htm).
  • 630,000 by July, 1948 according to Salman Abu-Sitta
    Salman Abu-Sitta
    Salman H. Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian right of return.-Biography:Abu-Sitta was born in Beersheba Salman H. Abu Sitta (Arabic سلمان ابو ستة)(born 1938) is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and the...

     (From Refugees to Citizen at Home: Al Naqba Anatomy http://www.plands.org/books/citizen/Al_Nakba_Anatomy.htm).
  • 700,000 by October, 1948 according to Salman Abu-Sitta
    Salman Abu-Sitta
    Salman H. Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian right of return.-Biography:Abu-Sitta was born in Beersheba Salman H. Abu Sitta (Arabic سلمان ابو ستة)(born 1938) is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and the...

     (From Refugees to Citizen at Home: Al Naqba Anatomy http://www.plands.org/books/citizen/Al_Nakba_Anatomy.htm).

See also

  • Palestinian exodus
  • Palestinian refugee
    Palestinian refugee
    Palestinian refugees or Palestine refugees are the people and their descendants, predominantly Palestinian Arabic-speakers, who fled or were expelled from their homes during and after the 1948 Palestine War, within that part of the British Mandate of Palestine, that after that war became the...

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