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- ↑ Para 57: appearing in the Sunday Times (London) on 11 October 1970, where reference is made not only to the villages of Jalou, Beit Nuba, and Imwas, also referred to by the Special Committee in its first report, but in addition to villages like Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem and El-Shuyoukh in the Hebron area and Jiflik, Agarith and Huseirat, in the Jordan Valley. The Special Committee has ascertained that all these villages have been completely destroyed. Para 58: the village of Nebi Samwil was in fact destroyed by Israeli armed forces on March 22, 1971. [5]
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- 1 2 3 McDowall 1989 , p. 84
- 1 2 Thant 1971.
- ↑ Segev 2007, p. 405.
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