How many Palestinian Arab refugees were there
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12540933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Efraim Karsh (King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-246 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Israel Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-7121 • E-ISSN: 1743-9086 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13537121.2011.547276 |
| OpenAlex | W2042024161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The number of Palestinian Arabs fleeing their homes during the 1948 war has constituted one of the most intractable bones of contention of the Arab–Israeli conflict, not least since the Palestinians have insisted on the ‘right of return’ of these individuals and their descendants to territory that has long been part of the state of Israel. At the end of the war, the Israeli government set the number of Palestinian refugees at 550,000–600,000; the British Foreign Office leaned toward the higher end of this estimate. But within a year, as large masses of people sought to benefit from the unprecedented influx of international funds to the area, some 962,000 alleged refugees had been registered with the newly-established UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). More than a half-century later, these exaggerated initial numbers have swollen still further: as of June 2000, according to UNRWA, the total had climbed close to 3.75 million, though it readily admits that the statistics are largely inflated. For its part t
Ancient history · Gaza strip · Palestine · Palestinian refugees · Political science · Refugee · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |