Adam Raz, a researcher at the Akevot Institute, investigation in Haaretz is drawing on newly uncovered documents and previously unpublished soldier testimonies.
He found that during and after the 1967 Six-Day War, an estimated 300,000 Palestinians were expelled or displaced from the occupied West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, amid violence, looting and the destruction of villages.
The article draws on the full transcripts of the "Soldiers' Talk" discussions held in kibbutzim after the war (testimonies that were left out of the book "The Seventh Day" and Mor Loushy's film Censored Voices. It also cites a December 1967 Foreign Ministry memo stating the expulsions were "a serious violation of the Geneva Convention," while noting the Ministerial Committee for Security Affairs approved the policy regardless.
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#IDF forces in #Quneitra. The commander who captured the Golan Heights testified to a decision to raze villages "so there would be nowhere to return."
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