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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 ...
380,000± by 15 May 1948 according to Ilan Pappe (in 1994) [28] 335,000 by 5 June 1948 according to Yossef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund. [29] 391,000 by 1 June 1948 according to a report by the Haganah's intelligence service (239,000 from the UN-ascribed Jewish state.) [10] 200,000 by the mid-June 1948 according to Emil Ghoury. [10]
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 ...
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 Nakba (in Arabic it means "the catastrophe") in 1948, approximately half of Palestine's predominantly Arab population lost their homes or were forced to flee in the war at the birth of ...
The central facts of the Nakba during the 1948 Palestine war are not disputed. [48] About 750,000 Palestinians—over 80% of the population in what would become the State of Israel—were expelled or fled from their homes and became refugees. [7] Eleven Arab urban neighborhoods and over 500 villages were destroyed or depopulated. [8]
Pro-Palestine protesters against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza rallied at Statehouse, then took to Columbus streets during the evening commute. ... driven from their homes in the 1948 Arab ...