Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab-Israeli conflict. While both Jewish and Arab villages have been depopulated, the vast majority of them are Arab villages emptied during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. For this reason, it is generally referred to as the Nakba ("catastrophe") among Arabs.
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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]
A list of Palestinian villages uprooted before 1948, with the time of expulsion (and the name of Jewish settlements on village land): [7]
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Safed district
Acre district
Tiberias district
Nazareth district
Beisan district
Haifa district
Tulkarm district
Jaffa district
Ramla district |
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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. Nearly 500 towns and villages were depopulated, too many to list here, but are detailed in the main article.
Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem were depopulated by Jordanian forces following the Rule of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan. It and some others on the list have been repopulated since the Six-Day War.
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Gush Etzion[8] near Jerusalem:
Three Arab villages located in the Latrun Corridor were destroyed based 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.[9]
The Latrun villages are the following.
Hebron/Bethlehem area[10]
Jordan Valley[10]
Jerusalem area[10]
In the Negeb/Sinai Desert
In addition to the villages evacuated or where the residents were expelled in the West Bank during the Six-Day War, 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 forced expulsion after the cease fire.[11] During the following months more than a hundred Arab villages were destroyed by Israel.[12]
Several Israeli settlements in Sinai were evacuated as a result of the 1979 treaty.
As a part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, there was a retreat from the Gaza Strip and the forced expulsion of twenty-one civilian Israeli settlements as well as an area in the northern West Bank containing four Israeli villages. The residential buildings were destroyed by Israel and only the public structures were left intact. The religious structures not removed by Israel were later destroyed by Palestinians.
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