Les réfugiés arabes de 1948
Statistiques différentes selon les dates, le territoire géographique considéré (Palestine du Mandat britanique, Palestine à l'ouest du Jourdain, Palestine territoire devenu l'Etat d'Israël) c'est très complexe, essayons de faire un petit point
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Il n' y a donc eu que 530 000 réfugies au maximum parmi lesquels :
Le total des régugies palestiniens ne peut être supérieur à 320 000 personnes |
Selon l'ONU |
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En 1947 l'UNSCOP (dans tout le territoire à l'ouest du Jourdain) estime la population arabe à environ 1 200 000 personnes (dont 145 000 Chrétiens et 15 000 Autres) et la population juive à environ 600 000 personnes. Etant donné que la Judée Samarie était la partie avec la plus grande population arabe, il n'y avait sans doute pas 800 000 Arabes vivant à l'intérieur de "la ligne verte" et le chiffre de 320 000 réfugiés arabes pourrait être surévalué... |
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Rapport de l'UNSCOP |
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Rapport de l'UNSCOP, part I, 3 : source The basic conflict in Palestine is a clash of two intense nationalisms. Regardless of the historical origins of the conflict, the rights and wrongs of the promises and counter-promises, and the international intervention incident to the Mandate, there are now in Palestine some 650,000 Jews and some 1,200,000 Arabs (included 161 000 Christians and others) who are dissimilar in their ways of living and, for the time being, separated by political interests which render difficult full and effective political co-operation among them, whether voluntary or induced by constitutional arrangements. |
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Population of Palestine by religions
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Voici d'autres statistiques britanniques et de sources arabes qui donnent des chiffres bien inférieurs :
"According to the British Survey of Palestine, Volume I – : in 1947, there were 561,000 Arabs in the area which became Israel. At the end of the war, 140,000 Arabs were in Israel; thus, there could not have been more than 420,000 displaced Arabs.
"At the end of May 1948, Faris el Khoury, Syria's representative on the UN Security Council, estimated their number at 250,000….
Emil Ghoury, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee - the leadership of the Arabs in British Mandate Palestine - announced on September 6, 1948, that by the middle of June, the number of Arabs who had fled was 200,000, and by July 17 their number had risen to 300,000….
Count Bernadotte, the UN Special Representative in Palestine, estimated the number of Arab refugees at 360,000, including 50,000 in Israeli territory…”
The Chicago Tribune's E.R. Noderer reported on May 10, 1948, that 150,000 Arabs were estimated to have left the areas of Palestine assigned to the Jews in the partition plan.” source
Dernière mise à jour 21/7/2014