In 1931, there were more than 850,000 Palestinian Arabs in the region.

1931 年，該地區有超過 85 萬巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人。

But with the rise of Hitler, Jewish flight from Europe became even more urgent and Palestine started to see the biggest wave of Jewish immigration yet.

但隨著希特勒的崛起，猶太人逃離歐洲變得更加緊迫，巴勒斯坦開始出現迄今為止最大的猶太移民潮。

A U.N. special committee proposed the land be divided into two states, a Jewish state and an Arab state.

聯合國特別委員會建議將這片土地劃分為兩個國家，一個猶太國家，一個阿拉伯國家。

Within this proposed area were hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had lived there for generations.

在這個擬議的區域內，有數十萬世代居住在那裡的巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人。

By the end of 1947, Zionists had several well-developed paramilitary forces, the largest one known as the Haganah.

到 1947 年底，猶太復國主義者擁有了幾支發展完善的準軍事部隊，其中最大的一支被稱為哈加納（Haganah）。

The Haganah adopted what was called Plan Dalet or Plan D, a set of brutal instructions called for the destruction of Arab villages by setting fire to, blowing up and planting mines.

哈加納采取了所謂的 "達萊特計劃 "或 "D計劃"，這是一套野蠻的指令，要求通過放火、炸燬和埋設地雷來摧毀阿拉伯村莊。

Plan D became the blueprint for carrying out the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine to make room for a new state.

D 計劃成為對歷史上的巴勒斯坦進行種族清洗以建立新國家的藍圖。

Roughly 750,000 Palestinians had been forcefully expelled.

大約有 75 萬巴勒斯坦人被強行驅逐。

And more than 500 villages destroyed.

500 多個村莊被摧毀。