Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="David Ben-Gurion">David Ben-Gurion</a> orders the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_from_Lydda_and_Ramle" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle">expulsion of Palestinians</a> from the towns of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lod">Lod</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramla" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ramla">Ramla</a>.<sup about="#mwt65" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_12#cite_note-11" id="mw2w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw3A">[11]</span></a></sup>
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