the country during the Palestinian 1936-1939 Revolt.41 Others were displaced inside Palestine as a result of punitive house demolitions and the sale of land to colonization associations affiliated with the Zionist movement.42 2. 1948: The United Nations General Assembly recommendation (Resolution 181(II)) to partition Palestine into two states in 1947 and the subsequent 1948 War led to a second and massive wave of displacement known as the Nakba (Catastrophe). An estimated 750,000–900,000 Palestinians were displaced, comprising 55 to 66% of the Palestinian population at the time.43 Most of them fled as a direct result of military hostilities and expulsion. The large majority of these 1948 Palestinian refugees found shelter across ceasefire lines in close proximity to their homes, i.e., in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, or Egypt, hoping to return after the cessation of hostilities. A small number fled to more distant Arab or other countries. 3. 1949-1966: The roughly 150,000 Palestinians who remained in the areas of Palestine that became part of the State of Israel in 1948, including between 47,000 and 75,000 internally displaced persons, continued to be displaced after the end of the war due to internal transfer and expulsion, primarily from the northern border villages; the Naqab desert (in Hebrew, Negev); the “Little Triangle” (area ceded to Israel under the 1949 armistice agreement with Jordan); and from villages partially emptied during the 1948 War.44 From 1949 until 1966, at least 30,000 Palestinians were expelled from Israel, comprising about 15 percent of the total Palestinian population of the State.45 4. 1967: A fourth wave of displacement took place during the 1967 War, when Israel occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, as well as the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and the Syrian Golan Heights. An estimated 350,000–400,000 Palestinians were displaced, half of them for a second time. Again, most became refugees as a direct result of military hostilities and expulsion. Some 95 percent of these 1967 Palestinian refugees (often called 1967displaced persons) fled to Jordan. Smaller numbers found shelter in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Some 60,000 Palestinians were abroad at the time of the 1967 War and were prevented from returning. Rony Gabbay, A Political Study of the Arab-Jewish Conflict: The Arab Refugee Problem (A Case Study) (Geneva: Librairie E Droz, and Paris, Librairie Minard, 1959), 66. Based on an average family of six persons, an estimated 30,000 Palestinians were affected. 42 From 1936 to 1939, the British administration demolished some 5,000 Palestinian homes. Yusef Rajab al-Ruday’i, The 1936 Arab Revolt in Palestine: A Military Study [Arabic], cited in Yezid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for a State, the Palestinian National Movement 1949-1993 (Washington, D.C: Institute for Palestine Studies and Oxford University Press, 1999), 2. See also Charles Kamen, Little Common Ground: Arab Agriculture and Jewish Settlement in Palestine 19201948 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), 191. 43 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:xxii–xxiii. 44 Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, “The Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel,” Al-Majdal Quarterly Magazine of BADIL, no. 51 (Winter 2012), http://BADIL.org/en/al-majdal/item/1873-art6. See also BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Survey, 2010-2012, VII:xxi–xxvi. 45 About 195,000 Palestinians lived in Israel at the time. See Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, “The Population by Religion and Population Group, Table 2.1,” in Statistical Abstract of Israel, 2001, http://www.cbs.gov.il/archive/shnaton52/st02_01.pdf. 41 8 Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees