Original sentence: Kiryat Gat was established in 1955 as a development town by 18 families from Morocco  on a site between the ruins of the Arab villages of al-Faluja and Iraq al-Manshiyya, which were depopulated and then destroyed in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Edited sentence: Kiryat Gat was established in 1955 as a development town by 18 families from Morocco  on a site between the ruins of the Arab villages of al-Faluja and Iraq al-Manshiyya, which were ethnically cleared and then destroyed in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War