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How did the British capture of Jaffa and Tel Aviv affect residents who had been expelled?

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Tel Aviv–Yafo Beach and high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel.

In 1917, during World War I, the Ottoman military authorities expelled the entire population of Tel Aviv and the Jewish residents of Jaffa, fearing their sympathies lay with the advancing British army.1

Following the capture of Jaffa and Tel Aviv by the British later that same year, these residents were able to return to their homes.1