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Nitram

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2. December 1947 – March 1948
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 08:45 AM
Oct 2016

Jewish reprisal operations were directed against villages and neighborhoods from which attacks against Jews were believed to have originated.7-76

The retaliations were more damaging than the provoking attack and included killing of armed and unarmed men, destruction of houses and sometimes expulsion of inhabitants. 7-76-125 The Zionist groups of Irgun and Lehi reverted to their 1937–1939 strategy of indiscriminate attacks by placing bombs and throwing grenades into crowded places such as bus stops, shopping centers and markets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus

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