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===Arab villages===
===Arab villages===
{{main|List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus}}
{{main|List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus}}
Palestinian Arab residents were expelled from hundreds of towns and villages by the [[Israel Defense Forces]], or fled in fear as the Israeli army advanced. Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated.
Palestinian Arab residents were expelled from hundreds of towns and villages by the [[Israel Defense Forces]], or fled in fear as the Israeli army advanced. [[Benny Morris]] states that most of the villages were completely or almost completely empty by the time they were conquered.<ref>[http://books.google.co.il/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=yibna&source=bl&ots=6M2l0cSjWr&sig=NEo5UC7gF9cmcyEK0sBlGtHcjak&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9HT4Ur6cLoja0QXpg4CAAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=yibna&f=true The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Benny Morris]</ref>Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated.


===Jewish villages===
===Jewish villages===

Revision as of 07:36, 10 February 2014

Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab-Israeli conflict.

1880-1946

Arab villages

A number of these villages, those in the Jezreel Valley, were inhabited by tenants of land which was sold by a variety of absentee landlord families, such as the Karkabi, Tueini, Farah and Khuri families and Sursock family of Lebanon. The sale of land to Jewish organizations often resulted in the eviction of Arabs.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

List of Palestinian villages uprooted before 1948 with the time of expulsion and the name of Jewish settlements on village land (in parentheses) can be seen below.

Jewish villages

1929 Palestine riots

During the 1929 Palestine riots:

1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine

During the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine:

1948 Arab–Israeli War

Arab villages

Main article: List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus

Palestinian Arab residents were expelled from hundreds of towns and villages by the Israel Defense Forces, or fled in fear as the Israeli army advanced. Benny Morris states that most of the villages were completely or almost completely empty by the time they were conquered.[8]Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated.

Jewish villages

Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem were depopulated by Jordanian forces following the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank. Some were repopulated after the Six-Day War.

In areas that became Israel
In areas that became the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Gush Etzion[9] near Jerusalem:

Gaza Strip:

Israel-Syria border
Israel-Jordan border

Six-Day War

West Bank

Three Arab villages, Bayt Nuba, Imwas and Yalo, located in the Latrun Corridor were destroyed on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin due to the corridor's strategic location and route to Jerusalem and because of the residents' alleged aiding of Egyptian commandos in their attack on the city of Lod. The residents of the three villages were offered compensation but were not allowed to return.[10]

Hebron/Bethlehem area[11]

Jordan Valley[11]

Jerusalem area[11]

In the Negev/Sinai Desert

Golan Heights

Main article: Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab–Israeli conflict

Over 100,000 Golan Heights residents were evacuated from about 25 villages whether on orders of the Syrian government or through fear of an attack by the Israeli Defense Forces and expulsion after the ceasefire.[12] During the following months, more than a hundred Syrian villages were destroyed by Israel.[13]

1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty

Israeli settlements

Israeli settlements in the Sinai Peninsula were evacuated as a result of the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty.

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

As a part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, 21 civilian Israeli settlements were forcibly evacuated, as well as an area in the northern West Bank containing four Israeli villages. The residential buildings were razed by Israel but public structures were left intact. The religious structures not removed by Israel were later destroyed by Palestinians.

Israeli settlements

In the Gaza Strip (all 21 settlements, as well as Bedouin village):
In the West Bank (4 settlements):

See also

References

  1. ^ Kenneth W. Stein, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939, UNC Press Books, 1987 p.60. The Sursocks sold Jinujar, Tall al-Adas, Jabata, Khuneifis, Jeida, Harbaj, Harithiya, Affula, Shuna, Jidru, Majdal.
  2. ^ Barbara Jean Smith, The roots of separatism in Palestine: British economic policy, 1920-1929, Syracuse University Press, 1993 pp.96-7;
  3. ^ Mark A. Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Indiana University Press, 1994 p.177, writes 'The Sursock deal is known to have involved the eviction of about 8000 tenants "compensated" at three pounds ten shillings [about $17] a head.'
  4. ^ Sahar Huneidi, A broken trust: Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians 1920-1925, I.B.Tauris, 2001 p.223.
  5. ^ Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August 1929,H.M.S.O., 1930, vol.1 p.437:'The Sursock titles should have been looked into as was acknowledged by the government officials themselves.The transfer became an irregular one, if not an illegal one, because the peasants' claims were not satisfied.'
  6. ^ Henry Laurens, La Question de Palestine, vol.2 (Une mission sacrée de civilisation), Fayard, Paris, 2002 pp.143-148.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be "(List ov villages destroyed before 1948)רשימת הכפרים שנהרסו לפני 1948". Retrieved Dec 4, 2012.
  8. ^ The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Benny Morris
  9. ^ History of the Etzion Bloc: The Siege and Fall Page 8 of 11
  10. ^ Oren, 2002, pp. 307.
  11. ^ a b c UN Doc A/8389
  12. ^ UN Doc A/8089 5 October 1970
  13. ^ "The Fate of Abandoned Arab Villages, 1965-1969" by Aron Shai (History & Memory - Volume 18, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2006, pp. 86-106)
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