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There are two categories of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mandate Palestine. The first type is composed of 384,200 Palestinians who have been internally displaced inside Israel since 1948 while the second category consists of 334,600 internally displaced Palestinians in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.
Israel: 150,000-420,000 internally displaced persons... 150,000 (Cohen, July 2001) 420,000 (BADIL, May 2006)... The higher figure includes displaced Bedouin, and was calculated on the basis of an estimated average annual growth rate of 4.2% in 1950- 2001, and 3% for the later years.
Estimates of IDPs in Israel vary widely. There is no government or United Nations estimate. Sources for estimates are academics, Palestinian NGOs and Israeli papers. The lowest estimate is 150,000 and the highest is 420,000, which includes the children and grandchildren of Arab villagers displaced in 1948, as well as Bedouin communities displaced later on.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Israel: 150,000-420,000 internally displaced persons... 150,000 (Cohen, July 2001) 420,000 (BADIL, May 2006)... The higher figure includes displaced Bedouin, and was calculated on the basis of an estimated average annual growth rate of 4.2% in 1950- 2001, and 3% for the later years.