Editing Six-Day War (section)

===Exodus of Arabs from Israeli-occupied territories===
[[File:Expulsion of Syrians from Golan Heights.jpg|thumb|Forced transfer and displacement. Syrian civilians, hands raised, before Israeli soldiers, leave their homes in the Golan Heights]]
{{Main|1967 Palestinian exodus}}
There was extensive displacement of populations in the occupied territories: of about one million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, 280,000 to 325,000 were displaced from their homes.{{Sfnp|Bowker|2003|p=81}} Most of them settled in Jordan.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3629923.stm |title=Right of return: Palestinian dream |work=BBC News |date=15 April 2004 |access-date=25 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512172604/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3629923.stm |archive-date=12 May 2011 |url-status=live }}.</ref> The other 700,000<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/stats/dist_pop_67.html |title=Distribution of the Palestinian Population And Jewish Settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Since 1967 |access-date=17 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514174927/http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/stats/dist_pop_67.html |archive-date=14 May 2010 }}</ref> remained. In the Golan Heights, over 100,000 fled.<ref name=McDowall_p64/> Israel allowed only the inhabitants of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to receive full Israeli citizenship, applying its law, administration and jurisdiction to these territories in 1967 and 1981, respectively. The vast majority of the populations in both territories declined to take citizenship. See also [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] and [[Golan Heights]].

In his book ''Righteous Victims'' (1999), Israeli "[[New Historian]]" [[Benny Morris]] writes:

{{Blockquote|In three villages southwest of Jerusalem and at Qalqilya, houses were destroyed "not in battle, but as punishment ... and in order to chase away the inhabitants ... contrary to government ... policy," Dayan wrote in his memoirs. In Qalqilya, about a third of the homes were razed and about 12,000 inhabitants were evicted, though many then camped out in the environs. The evictees in both areas were allowed to stay and later were given cement and tools by the Israeli authorities to rebuild at least some of their dwellings.

But many thousands of other Palestinians now took to the roads. Perhaps as many as seventy thousand, mostly from the Jericho area, fled during the fighting; tens of thousands more left over the following months. Altogether, about one-quarter of the population of the West Bank, about 200–250,000 people, went into exile. ... They simply walked to the Jordan River crossings and made their way on foot to the East Bank. It is unclear how many were intimidated or forced out by the Israeli troops and how many left voluntarily, in panic and fear. There is some evidence of IDF soldiers going around with loudspeakers ordering West Bankers to leave their homes and cross the Jordan. Some left because they had relatives or sources of livelihood on the East Bank and feared being permanently cut off.

Thousands of Arabs were taken by bus from East Jerusalem to the [[Allenby Bridge]], though there is no evidence of coercion. The free Israeli-organized transportation, which began on June 11, 1967, went on for about a month. At the bridge, they had to sign a document stating that they were leaving of their own free will. Perhaps as many as 70,000 people emigrated from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world.

On July 2, the Israeli government announced that it would allow the return of those 1967 refugees who desired to do so, but no later than August 10, later extended to September 13. The Jordanian authorities probably pressured many of the refugees, who constituted an enormous burden, to sign up to return. In practice only 14,000 of the 120,000 who applied were allowed by Israel back into the West Bank by the beginning of September. After that, only a trickle of "special cases" were allowed back, perhaps 3,000 in all. (328–29)}}

In addition, between 80,000 and 110,000 Syrians fled the Golan Heights,{{Sfnp|Morris|2001|p=327}} of which about 20,000 were from the city of Quneitra.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Al-Qunayṭirah |year=2010 |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487614/al-Qunaytirah |access-date=18 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927074414/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487614/al-Qunaytirah |archive-date=27 September 2010 |url-status=live |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] Online}}</ref> According to more recent research by the Israeli daily ''[[Haaretz]]'', a total of 130,000 Syrian inhabitants fled or were expelled from the territory, most of them pushed out by the Israeli army.<ref>Shay Fogelman, [http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/the-disinherited-1.304959 "The disinherited"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919203211/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/the-disinherited-1.304959 |date=19 September 2010 }}, ''Haaretz'', 30 July 2010</ref>