Original sentence: The 1948 Palestinian exodus (, al-Hijra al-Filasṭīnīya), also known as Nakba (, an-Nakbah), meaning the "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm", occurred when between 650,000 and 750,000 Palestinian Arabs  left or were expelled from their homes, during the creation of the state of Israel and the civil war that preceded it
Edited sentence: The 1948 Palestinian exodus (, al-Hijra al-Filasṭīnīya), also known as Nakba (, an-Nakbah), meaning the "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm", occurred when between 650,000 and 750,000 Palestinian Arabs  were expelled from their homes by Yishuv or Israeli forces, during the creation of the state of Israel and the civil war that preceded it