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The Nakba or Al-Nakba (meaning The Catastrophe) refers commonly to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine by Zionist forces executing the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which called for the establishment of independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. Although neither the stated goals of Zionism nor the Partition Plan itself called for the displacement of Arabs, and despite misgivings over the execution of such a plan, approximately 711,000 to 725,000 Palestinian Arabs left fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.