Original sentence: During 1948, the population had swollen to 50,000 people as Arab refugees fleeing other areas had made their way there.The few hundred Arabs who remained in the city were not permitted to live in their own homes, but were concentrated into a ghetto.They were soon vastly outnumbered by the influx of Jewish immigrants who moved into the town from August 1948 onwards, as a result of which Lydda became a predominantly Jewish town and came to be known as Lod
Edited sentence: During 1948, the population rose to 50,000 people as Arab refugees fleeing other areas made their way there.The few hundred Arabs who remained in the city were not permitted to live in their own homes,.They were soon vastly outnumbered by the influx of Jewish immigrants who moved into the town from August 1948 onwards, as a result of which Lydda became a predominantly Jewish town