It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave.

As acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department visited Arab Haifa and reported to the Jewish Agency Executive (6 May 1948); as quoted in The birth of the Palestinian Refuge problem revisited by Benny Morris, p. 309–10 (2nd edition, 2004), citing Protocol of meeting of JAE (6 May 1948), CZA 45/2