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Internally Displaced Persons within
The Return of the Displaced Residents of Kafr Bir'im to Their Village
Kafr Bir'im, a Galilee village, was forcibly displaced by Israeli forces as part of Operation Hiram, a military operation launched three months after the establishment of the State of Israel with the aim of capturing the villages of the so-called “Arab Pocket” in Upper Galilee. When the Israeli army reached Kafr Bir'im in November 1948, the regional commander ordered the residents to leave the village for two weeks and move five kilometers northward, toward the Lebanese borde
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