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SubscribePalestinian refugees fleeing villages captured in the Latrun area. The IDF expelled them, and the JNF built Canada Park over the ruins.

Palestinian refugees fleeing villages captured in the Latrun area. The IDF expelled them, and the JNF built Canada Park over the ruins. Credit: Benia Ben-Nun

Unpublished testimonies from soldiers who fought in the Six-Day War expose a stark gap between Israel’s collective memory and what actually happened in 1967. Newly uncovered documents indicate that 300,000 Arabs were expelled or displaced from the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights amid violence, looting and destruction | An investigation

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11:26 PM • June 04 2026 IDT

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“At first I wasn’t willing to execute Arabs who weren’t resisting,” one soldier said. “Then we came to the conclusion that we had to kill. We went through the process of ceasing to see them as human beings.”

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