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Lydda and Ramle during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Lydda and Ramle were two medium-sized towns that were located on the strategically important Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road. In the 1948 war between the Zionist and Palestinian forces in Israel/Palestine, Israeli forces took the town and expelled the towns' residents, an estimated 50,000 Palestinians, at gunpoint.
David Ben-Gurion, the leader of Israel, ordered the expulsion of the Palestinians and Yitzhak Rabin, the IDF officer in command, carried it out.
The order to expel the Palestinians and the operation itself were described in a passage of a book by Yitzhak Rabin, which was censored by the Israeli government but secretly copied and released by its translator.
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