Original sentence: In 1962 he rose to the position of Chief of Staff in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Edited sentence: (At least one later Palestinian leading anti-Israel commander/terrorist, who would be a leader of later Palestinian terrorism hijacking campaigns, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) head George Habash, was one of the children sent on this forced march across the arid landscape.(Today the towns are the Israeli towns of Lod and Ramle).)  In 1962 Rabin rose to the position of Chief of Staff in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).In his memoirs, he admitted to supervising the forced mass expulsion of most of the civilian Arabs of Lydda and Ramleh, numbering about 60,000.This was done reportedly at the personal instruction of new Israel's chief David Ben-Gurion