1967 Palestinian exodus

The Naksa (Arabic: النكسة, "the setback") was the displacement of around 280,000 to 325,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, when the territories were captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. A number of Palestinian villages were destroyed by the Israeli military, such as Imwas, Yalo, Bayt Nuba, Beit Awwa, and Al-Jiftlik, among others.

==Terminology== The word (), meaning "relapse (in an illness); reverse (which one suffers), set-back, debacle," is an Arabic verbal noun (, ) of (, ) of the verb '' (), meaning "to turn around, turn over, invert, reverse, turn upside down; to lower, withdraw, retract, pull in; to cause a relapse (of an illness)."