Original sentence: He was born on February 17, 1950 in Deir el-Balah, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, two years after the creation of Israel for Palestinian parents Zilfa and Muhammad Atwan lived in the peaceful Palestinian seaside village of Isdud until they were forced to flee their homes by the occupying Israeli army in 1948.Isdud is now Israel's biggest port and has been renamed Ashdod.They were among 800,000 Palestinians uprooted and dispossessed in the ethnic cleansing operation that continues to this day and is annually lamented as the Nakhba - the 'catastrophe'
Edited sentence: He was born on February 17, 1950 in Deir el-Balah, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, two years after the creation of Israel for Palestinian parents Zilfa and Muhammad Atwan lived in the Palestinian seaside village of Isdud