September
2, 1950
Isreal
relocates 4,000 to Sinai
Israel forcibly
relocated 4,000 Bedouin (their name means "desert
dwellers" in Arabic) from its territory to its border with Egypt, and sent them
into the Sinai Peninsula.
According to the Hebrew
Bible, the peninsula was crossed by the Israelites
during the
Exodus from Egypt. This included numerous halts over a 40-year period of travel
sometime towards the end of the Bronze Age.
The historicity of the event is disputed and its alleged date varies even in
Jewish traditions.
At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian forces entered
the former British Mandate of Palestine from
Sinai to support Palestinian and other Arab forces against the newly declared
State of Israel. For a period during the war, Israeli forces entered the
north-eastern corner of Sinai.
With the exception of Palestine's Gaza Strip,
which came under the administration of the All-Palestine Government, the western
frontier of the former Mandate of Palestine became the Egyptian-Israeli
frontier under the 1949 Armistice Agreement.
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