The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited Chapter 9: Clearing the borders: expulsions and population transfers, November 1948–1950, p.520-521: "Following the signing of the armistice agreement on 3 April, a question mark arose regarding a number of villages on the southern edge of the Jerusalem Corridor. Refugees had gradually returned to both al Walaja and al Qabu, which were in Israeli territory, and the IDF wanted them empty. On 1 May, Israeli troops raided them, and the inhabitants fled and the troops blew up their houses. A few weeks later, the IDF raided the village of Wadi Fukin, on the Jordanian side of the border and expelled its inhabitants. ….. Al walaja en Qabu…IDF wanted them empty."
