sentences:  Many Palestinians fled from the areas that are now Israel as a response to massacres of Arab towns by militant Jewish organizations like the Irgun and the Lehi (group) (See Deir Yassin massacre).The War came to an end with the signing of the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and each of its Arab neighbours.The status of Jewish citizens in Arab states worsened during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war.