Since the beginning of the last decade, teams from the Israeli Defense Ministry have removed collections of historical documents to hide the evidence of the 1948 Nakba and the atrocities that accompanied it.
"Since the beginning of the last decade, the Defense Ministry teams have been scouring Israel's archives and removing historical documents, but they were not only papers related to Israel's nuclear project or the country's foreign relations being transferred to a cellar, Hide hundreds of other documents, as part of a systematic effort to hide the evidence of the Nakba. "
"This phenomenon was first discovered by the Akfout Institute for Research on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."
According to a report by the institute, the operation is led by the Department of Defense's secret security department, which prohibits disclosure of its activities and budget.
"The report confirms that the Department of Defense secret department of the Ministry of Defense removed the historical documents illegally and without any authority, and in some cases at least, banned documents that have already been approved for publication by the military censorship, as some of the documents that were placed in the Cabinets have already been published. "
Palestinian sources say tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their property and property for fear of being hurt after reports of massacres committed by Jewish gangs in a number of Palestinian villages and towns before 1948.
As a result of the 1948 Nakba, tens of thousands of them fled to neighboring Arab countries and to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, leaving behind property and property certificates.
Since then, Israel has refused to return Palestinian refugees to their land and refuses to recognize massacres or the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages.
According to the Israeli newspaper, the secret security department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense "concealed the testimony of generals in the Israeli army about the killing of civilians and the demolition of villages, as well as documentation of expulsion of Bedouins during the first decade of statehood."
Yihil Horif, who headed the secret security administration for two decades until 2007, was quoted as saying that he launched the project, which is still ongoing.
"He considers it logical to hide the events of 1948, because the disclosure may generate unrest among the Arab population in the country."
Asked about the purpose of removing the documents that had already been published, Horif explained that the aim was "to undermine the credibility of the studies on the history of the refugee problem. In his view, the claim presented by the researcher is supported by an original document that is not substantiated or refuted, .
The paper noted that it was able to discover a document written by Mapam Central Committee member Aharon Cohen, based on a briefing given in November 1948 by Israel Jalili, former chief of staff of the Haganah militia, which became the Israeli army after 1948.
"In Safsaf (a Palestinian village near Safed in the north), 52 men were arrested, they tied each other, a hole was dug and the Israelis fired at them. Ten of them were still fighting death," Cohen wrote in the document. The bodies of six elderly men were found. There were 61 bodies and three cases of rape, one of which was in the east of Safad for a 14-year-old girl. Four men were shot dead. One of them was cut off with a knife to take his ring. "