The New York Times · New York, New York · 31 May 1959

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ISRAEL EXPANDS HOMES FOR ARABS

New Nazareth Houses Will Be Permanent Quarters for ‘Internal Refugees’

By SETH S. KING, Special to The New York Times.

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NAZARETH, Israel, May 25—On one of the stony hillsides on which this ancient town is draped, workmen were putting the last fittings into rows of small, two-family concrete houses this week. Beside them, other houses, of the same blocky design, were already occupied by Christian Arab families who have lived for the last ten years in Nazareth.

The construction of these houses is part of the Israeli Government’s new effort to resettle permanently as many as possible of the 20,000 “internal refugees” left over from the Arab-Israeli war. Units to house 250 refugee families in seven Israeli Arab communities have been built or will be completed by the end of this summer.

The remaining 1,750 families that the Government says are inadequately housed will be provided for during the next two years, if they can be pursuaded to participate in the program. Some of these Arab refugees fled during the fighting from their villages to other villages that remained in Israeli territory when the armistice agreements were signed in 1949.

The rest are persons who were ordered to move from their villages, most of which were in border military zones, and were made to settle elsewhere a year or two after the fighting ended. During the last ten years all these refugee families have either not been permitted to return to their original villages or have been unable to do so because those villages were destroyed.

This resettlement program in no way applies to the estimated total of 800,000 Palestinian Arabs who fled from what is now Israel and are still living, many with the help of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, in the surrounding Arab countries.

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