Yes, there were Palestine passports before 1948. No, they do not prove an Arab Palestinian state ever existed. Those ...

My father, George Kuttab, and his mother, our Tata Nazira Fatalleh, fled their neighborhood of Musrara in what is now West Jerusalem in May 1948, after their sister Hoda’s husband, Elias, was killed ...

Returning to the origins of modern Middle Eastern warfare, we trace how British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine opened the door to civil war and then a regional invasion in May 1948. We follow the ...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — As a 4-year-old, Ghalia Abu Moteir was driven to live in a tent in Khan Younis after her family fled their home in what’s now Israel, escaping advancing Israeli forces.

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 40. Following Israel's Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's first formal order was to ...