 About 11,000 internees remained in the camps as
of August 1948, with the British releasing and transporting the
internees to Haifa at the rate of 1,500 a month.Israel began the final
evacuation of the camps in December 1948 with the last
10,200 Jewish internees in Cyprus mainly men of military age, evacuated to
Israel during January 24–February 11, 1949.In the White Paper of 1939, the British government decided that future Jewish immigration to Palestine would be limited to 75,000 over the next five years, with further immigration subject to Arab consent.