1831 Arab Refugees

[Ibrahim Pasha, the 1831 Egyptian conqueror of Palestine] “left behind him permanent colonies of Egyptians at Besian, Nablus, Irbid, Acre, and Jaffa. Into Jaffa alone, “at least 2,000 people have been imported.”

Source: Ernst Frankenstein, Justice For My People, London, Nicholson and Watson, 1943, p. 127.