List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus
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Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Some places were entirely destroyed and left uninhabitable;[1][2] others were left with a few hundred residents and were repopulated by Jewish immigrants, then renamed.
Those areas that became a part of Israel and had at least a partial Arab population consisted of approximately 100 villages and two towns. Arabs remained in small numbers in some of the cities (Haifa, Jaffa and Acre); and Jerusalem was divided between Jordan and Israel. Around 30,000 Palestinians remained in Jerusalem in what became the Arab part of it (East Jerusalem). In addition, some 30,000 non-Jewish refugees relocated to East Jerusalem, while 5,000 Jewish refugees moved from the Old City to West Jerusalem on the Israeli side. An overwhelming number of the Arab residents, and other non-Jews such as Greeks and Armenians, who had lived in the cities that became a part of Israel and were renamed (Acre, Haifa, Safad, Tiberias, Ashkelon, Beersheba, Jaffa and Beisan) fled or were expelled. Most of the Palestinians who remain there are internally displaced people from the villages nearby.[3]
There are more than 120 "village memorial books" documenting the history of the depopulated Palestinian villages. These books are based on accounts given by villagers. Rochelle A. Davis has described the authors as seeking "to pass on information about their villages and their values to coming generations".[4]
The towns and villages listed below are arranged according to the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine they were situated in.
Contents
- 1 Towns and cities
- 2 Villages
- 2.1 Acre Subdistrict
- 2.2 Beersheba Subdistrict
- 2.3 Beisan Subdistrict
- 2.4 Gaza Subdistrict
- 2.5 Haifa Subdistrict
- 2.6 Hebron Subdistrict
- 2.7 Jaffa Subdistrict
- 2.8 Jenin Subdistrict
- 2.9 Jerusalem Subdistrict
- 2.10 Nazareth Subdistrict
- 2.11 Ramle Subdistrict
- 2.12 Safad Subdistrict
- 2.13 Tiberias Subdistrict
- 2.14 Tulkarm Subdistrict
- 3 See also
- 4 Notes
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Towns and cities
Villages
Acre Subdistrict
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Beersheba Subdistrict
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- al-Imara
- al-Jammama
- al-Khalasa
- Beersheba, military assault, expulsions, 20 October 1948
- Umm al-Rashrash
Beisan Subdistrict
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The well at al-Khalasa, 1900–26
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Israeli troops in Beersheba, 20 October 1948
Gaza Subdistrict
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Al-Faluja, 28 February 1949
Haifa Subdistrict
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Hebron Subdistrict
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Bayt Jibrin, 2005
Jaffa Subdistrict
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Yazur, 2008
Jenin Subdistrict
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Zir'in, 1918
Jerusalem Subdistrict
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Deir Yassin, now part of the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center
Nazareth Subdistrict
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Ramle Subdistrict
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Safad Subdistrict
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Safad, 1908
Tiberias Subdistrict
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Tulkarm Subdistrict
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Qaqun, 2008
See also
- Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus
- Transfer Committee
- Plan Dalet
- Khirba
- Palestine refugee camps
- 1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle
- List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
- Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
- Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab–Israeli conflict
- Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war
- List of battles and operations in the 1948 Palestine war
Notes
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- ↑ Davis, 2011, pp. 237-238
- ↑ Davis, 2011, p. Preface - xvii
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 Morris 2004, p. xv
- ↑ Morris 2004, p. 423, p. 514, p. 536
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p.177.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Shavit 2004.
- ↑ Morris 2004, p. 500.
References
- Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press, 2004. See in particular pp. xiv–xviii, where Morris lists 389 Palestinian villages depopulated by massacres, expulsions, military assault, or flight.
- Morris, Benny. 1948: The First Arab–Israeli War. Yale University Press, 2008.
- Khalidi, Walid. (ed.) All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies 1992, 2006.
- Shavit, Ari. Deir Yasian: Survival of the Fittest, interview with Benny Morris, Haaretz, January 9, 2004.
- Davis, Rochelle A. (2011). Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. ISBN 978-0-8047-7312-6.
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Israeli war crimes
- 1948 Palestinian exodus
- Former populated places in Palestine (region)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict-related lists
- Palestinian diaspora
- Lists of populated places
- Military operations of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 1949 in Israel
- 1947 in Mandatory Palestine
- 1948 in Mandatory Palestine
- 1948 in All-Palestine (Gaza)
- Zionist terrorism
