Original sentence: For Israeli Jews, the war marks the successful establishment of the Israeli state, but for Palestinian Arabs, it signifies the beginning of the events referred to as "al Nakba" (Arabic: النكبة, "the Catastrophe"), a term used to describe the fleeing or expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents from the newly created state of Israel, and the subsequent Israeli ban on their return.The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Israeli War of Independence, was the first in a series of armed conflicts fought between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbors in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict
Edited sentence: For Palestinian Arabs, the war marked the beginning of the events referred to as "al Nakba" (Arabic: النكبة, "The Catastrophe"), a term which derives from the belief in an Israeli political-military strategy of expulsion of Arab residents marked by several massacres (see Deir Yassin massacre).The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Israeli War of Independence, was the first in a series of armed conflicts fought between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbors in the currently ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict