Key heads that have ethnically cleansed Palestinian territories

Military operation was dubbed “Dalet” (Plan D), his strategy was based on the systematic shift of Palestinians from their villages, such as “curfew, bombing of villages where the population centre is; burning houses, destroying them, and planning to deploy mines to prevent Palestinians from returning to their homes”.

According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, the Daleal Plan was the brain of the 11-member group that had begun in December 1947, and the main goal was to expropriate Palestinian lands.

The ethnic cleansing campaign, in which it had continued until March 1949, has resulted in the violent evacuation of 750,000 Palestinians, in a total of 531 villages destroyed, where they were stripped of the Arab names for replacing with the Jewish ones.

The leader of Yishuv (Hebrew residents located in Palestine before 1948), David Ben-Gurion, is the architect of the Palestinian ethnic cleansing.

“We have to do everything to make sure they don't come back (the Palestinian refugees)”, he wrote in his diary on June 18, 1948.

Ben-Gurion, who grew up and born in Poland, was the main mind of the Dale Plan. He developed and defined military plans in which Palestinians were the main target of violent murder and evacuation. He would later become Israel's first prime minister.

Yigael Yadin was Haganah's chief of senior command staff. Yadin was considered Ben Gurion's right hand in the Dale Plan. The Haganah High Command was Israel's main military centre, reports “Alzeera”, the Periscope broadcast.

Yitzhak Sadeh was the commander of Palmachhu (the army of Haganah's volunteer military forces), where he ordered British troops to attack. From December 1948 until January 1949, he has had an important role in Operation Horev, a military action undertaken against the Egyptian army in western Negev.

He built the first Israeli Army brigade, which was responsible for apprehending al-Lyd Airport (now known as Lod).

Yigal Allon was responsible for Palmachh's 1 and 3 brigades. It was the head of the Yiftah operation to take control of the strategic city of Afad in Galilee. This operation was launched on April 20, 1948, to destroy and take over British positions.

Moshe Dayan was appointed head of the Haganah Foreign Arab department in 1947, where his main task was to recruit agents to collect information about the disorganization of Arab forces in Palestine.

As a Hague commander, he was responsible for al-Lyddi's ethnic cleansing in June 1948. This month, he was to become the Jewish - controlled military commander in Jerusalem.

Josef Wietz, according to historian Pappe, was deeply involved in ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. He had recorded every detail of every location and village known as “village documents”. He had lobbied to other Zionist leaders to form his plan to transfer the Palestinian population to areas where the Israelis had already settled.

Ezra Danin was a Syria-born person and raised in a family of businessmen, described as a key player in ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.

He was fluent in Arabic, and he had joined intelligent Arab groups to obtain important information that was then useful to Hagganah.

He was also responsible for the village documents, which include information such as the average amount of land per family, the political ties of clans, details about land cultivation, etc.

Yeshewa Palmon was the chief undercover of the implementation of procedures that followed the occupation of Palestinian villages and cities. He would later become the senior adviser to the Arab relations of Ben Guron during 1949 until 1945.

Eliyaah Susson was a Syrian Jew, directed the Arab department of the Hebrew Agency between 1933 and 1948. He was also a member of the Transfer Committee, which implemented orders to remove Palestinians from their towns and villages.

Gad Machnes was one of the main involved in building Israel's government and a member of transfer policies.

Yohanan Ratner was an architect and a member of the Haganah High Command. He also served Ben Gurion as a military adviser./Periscopi/