 From October to November 1948, the IDF launched Operation Yoav to remove Egyptian forces from the Negev and Operation Hiram to remove the Arab Liberation Army from North Galilee during which at least nine events named massacres of Arabs were carried out by IDF soldiers.These events generated an exodus of 200,000 to 220,000 Palestinian Arabs.Here, Arabs fled fearing atrocities or were expelled if they had not fled.