Original sentence: Also during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in which both parties tried to occupy civilian settlements, there was a considerable injury to the civilian population; several Jewish settlements and approximately four hundred Palestinian settlements were destroyed and their residents were expelled.The majority of victims on both sides were civilians
Edited sentence: A similar fate happened to four hundred Palestinian settlements which were destroyed.Also during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in which both parties tried to occupy civilian settlements, there was a considerable injury to the civilian population; several Jewish settlements were destroyed and their residents were expelled.Also the Palestinian population was hurt, because the terrorists used to operate from within the population and use the Palestinian villages and towns as hideout places, therefore Israel's army attempts to locate them and stop them occasionally caused injury to innocent Palestinian civilians.The War of Attrition and the 2006 Lebanon War were the only wars in which Israel didn't have any territorial objectives (except of conserving the existing situation).The strategy of the Palestinians in this war was to hurt the civilian population in Israel, and the majority of the Israeli victims in this war were civilian citizens