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The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing [2] of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. [3]
The term "Nakba" was first applied to the events of 1948 by Constantin Zureiq, a professor of history at the American University of Beirut, in his 1948 book "Ma'na al-Nakba" (The Meaning of the Disaster) he wrote "the tragic aspect of the Nakba is related to the fact that it is not a regular misfortune or a temporal evil, but a Disaster in the ...
During the 1947–1949 Palestine war, or the Nakba, around 400 Palestinian Arab towns and villages were forcibly depopulated, with a majority being destroyed and left uninhabitable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Today these locations are all in Israel ; many of the locations were repopulated by Jewish immigrants , with their place names replaced with Hebrew ...
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 is a 1992 reference book edited by the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, with contributions from several other researchers, that describes 418 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depopulated in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the central component of the Nakba.
Palestinians commemorated the 1948 "Nakba" or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel ...
(A pdf version is available on www.palestine-studies.org) Zimmerman, J. (1973/1974) Radio Propaganda in the Arab-Israeli War 1948 published by the Weiner Library Bulletin, 30/31, 2-8. (A copy of the four page article can be found on www.middleeastinfo.org
Plan Dalet (Plan D), of March 1948, is the most noteworthy. Guided by a series of specific operational plans, the broad outlines of which were considered as early as 1944, Plan Dalet was drawn up to expand Jewish-held areas beyond those allocated to the proposed Jewish State in the UN Partition Plan.
In July 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war, the Palestinian towns of Lydda and Ramle were captured by the Israeli Defense Forces and their residents (totalling 50,000-70,000 people) [2] [3] were violently expelled. The expulsions occurred as part of the broader 1948 Palestinian expulsions and the Nakba.