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Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab-Israeli conflict, many of them during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
. For this reason, it is generally referred to as Nakba ("catastrophe") among Arabs.



ng the fighting, Arabs fled towns and villages, both under orders from the surrounding Arab states, and on their own accord.






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Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab-Israeli conflict, many of them during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
. For this reason, it is generally referred to as Nakba ("catastrophe") among Arabs.

1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots

The 1929 Palestine riots refers to a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence....


Jewish villages

  • Bayit VaGan
    Bat Yam

    File:Location_batyam.pngBat Yam is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean coast, on the central coastal strip, just south of Tel Aviv....
     (re-established in 1930)
  • Giv'on HaHadashah
    Giv'on HaHadashah

    Giv'on HaHadashah is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement located northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank, adjacent to Jib . al-Jib is a Palestinian village whose biblical namesake is Gibeon....
     (re-established in 1977)
  • Kfar Ata (re-established in 1930)
  • Ramat Rachel
    Ramat Rachel

    Ramat Rachel is a kibbutz located south of Jerusalem in Israel, as an enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries. Overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb and situated adjacent to the Green Line , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council....
     (re-established in 1930)


1936 Arab Revolt


Jewish villages

  • Kfar Shiloah
    Ophel

    The City of David, also known as the Ophel is the name of the narrow promontory beyond the southern edge of Jerusalem's Temple Mount and Old City of Jerusalem, with the Tyropoeon Valley on its west, the Hinnom valley to the south, and the Kidron Valley on the east....
     (now part of Jerusalem)
  • Kfar Etzion
    Kfar Etzion

    Kfar Etzion is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank. It falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....


1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....

During the fighting, Arabs fled towns and villages, both under orders from the surrounding Arab states, and on their own accord. Some towns and villages were forcibly depopulated by the Jewish forces.

Most of the Jewish villages were depopulated as a result of an organized evacuation, in areas where it was thought that they could not hold out against the Arab forces. A few were forcibly depopulated.

Jewish villages

Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War....
 were abandoned following the 1948 Jordanian capture
Rule of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan

The West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Jordan for a period of nearly two decades starting from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1950, with United Kingdom approval, and despite Arab League opposition, Jordan extended its jurisdiction over the West Bank....
. It and some others on the list have been re-settled since the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
.

In areas that later became the State of Israel
  • Beit Yosef
  • Hartuv
  • Masada (destroyed but soon repopulated and rebuilt)
  • Mishmar HaYarden
    Mishmar HaYarden, Palestine

    Mishmar HaYarden was a moshava that was established in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel during the First Aliyah. It was destroyed during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948....
  • Sha'ar HaGolan (destroyed but soon repopulated and rebuilt)
  • Yad Binyamin
    Yad Binyamin

    Yad Binyamin is a communal settlement located in central Israel and the seat of Nahal Sorek Regional Council. Yad Binyamin is located adjacent to the junction of three major thoroughfares; Highway 3 , Highway 6 and Highway 7 and a thirty minute drive to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beersheba....


In the West Bank and Gaza
  • Atarot
    Atarot

    Atarot was a moshav in the British Mandate of Palestine, north of Jerusalem along the Highway 60 . The village was captured and destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and is now the site of Atarot Airport and Jerusalem's largest industrial park....
     (now part of Jerusalem)
  • Beit HaArava
    Beit HaArava

    Beit HaArava is a kibbutz and Israeli settlement in the Megilot Regional Council near the Dead Sea and Jericho, in the central West Bank. It is located at the eponymous Beit HaArava Junction, at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 90 ...
  • Ein Tzurim
    Ein Tzurim

    Ein Tzurim is a religious kibbutz in southern Israel. Located south of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council, and is a member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement....
  • Kalia
  • Kfar Etzion
    Kfar Etzion

    Kfar Etzion is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank. It falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....
  • Masuot Yitzhak
  • Neve Yaakov
    Neve Yaakov

    [Image:NeveYaakov1.jpg|thumb|330px|View of Neve Yaakov]]Neve Yaakov also Neve Ya'aqov, , is an Israeli neighbourhood in the northeastern tip of Jerusalem....
     (now part of Jerusalem)
  • Revadim
    Revadim

    Revadim is a kibbutz in the Israeli coastal plain in south-central Israel. It belongs to the Yoav Regional Council. It is located about five km southeast of Gedera and just east of Highway 3 ....
  • Silwan
    Silwan

    Silwan, or "Kfar Shiloah," is a mostly Palestinian people neighborhood of roughly 45,000, adjacent to the Old City , extending along the Kidron Valley and running alongside the eastern slopes of Jabel Mukaber....
     (now part of Jerusalem)


Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion refers to a group of Jewish villages established from the 1920s south of Jerusalem on the northern part of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank, and destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
 in the West Bank (some of these have been established of previously depopulated villages):
  • Alon Shvut
    Alon Shvut

    Alon Shvut is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement in Judea, within the southern West Bank, administered by the Gush Etzion Regional Council....
  • Bat Ayin
    Bat Ayin

    Bat Ayin is an Israeli settlement and communal settlement in Gush Etzion, on the edge of the Judean hills and the Shephelah, inhabited primarily by baal teshuvah Religious Zionism Jews who adhere to Chassidic philosophy that combines spiritual religious life with organic agriculture....
  • Betar Illit
    Betar Illit

    Beitar Illit is an Israeli settlement and List of cities in Israel west of Gush Etzion in northern Judea region of the West Bank.Located south of Jerusalem, Beitar Illit was established in 1985 and initially settled by a small group of young families from the Religious Zionism yeshiva of Machon Meir, including that of Rabbi Reuven Hass ....
  • Carmei Tzur
    Carmei Tzur

    Karmei Tzur is a Communal settlement established in 1984 by a group of students from the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut, named after the nearby Hasmonean fortress of Beth-zur....
  • Efrat
    Efrat

    Efrat , or officially Efrata , is an Israeli settlement in Judea , located south of Jerusalem, between Bethlehem and Hebron. Efrat was established in 1980, and contained 8,000 residents at the end of 2007 according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics....
  • Elazar
  • Gvaot
    Gvaot

    Gvaot is an Israeli settlement located in Gush Etzion, in the westernmost area of the settlement bloc. The location is strategically located above the highway from Gush Etzion to Beit Shemesh and the Shephelah....
  • Har Gilo
    Har Gilo

    Har Gilo is an Israeli settlement and communal settlement located about five kilometers south of Jerusalem, and two kilometers west of Bethlehem in the northern Judean hills of the West Bank....
  • Kfar Etzion
    Kfar Etzion

    Kfar Etzion is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank. It falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....
  • Migdal Oz
    Migdal Oz

    The Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, more commonly known as Migdal Oz , which is the name of Migdal Oz in which it is located, is a midrasha, or Orthodox Judaism institution of higher Torah study for women, located in Gush Etzion, Israel....
  • Neve Daniel
    Neve Daniel

    Neve Daniel is a communal settlement and Israeli settlement located in western Gush Etzion in Judea, in the southern West Bank. Located south of Jerusalem and just west of Bethlehem, it sits atop one of the highest points in the area - close to 1,000 meters above sea level, and has a view of much of the Israeli Coastal Plain to the west, as...
  • Rosh Tzurim
    Rosh Tzurim

    Rosh Tzurim is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank. A member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council....


Gaza Strip:
  • Kfar Darom
    Kfar Darom

    Kfar Darom was a kibbutz and Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip....
     (re-settled but evacuated as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
    Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

    Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza pull-out plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Prime Ministers of Israel Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four Israeli settlements in the northern West...
     of 2005    )


Arab villages

Villages are arranged according to the pre-1948 British Mandate subdistrict they were situated in. The list does not include Arab districts of mixed cities which were partly or wholly depopulated, among them Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
, Lod
Lod

Lod is a mixed Arab-Jewish city about 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2007, its population was 67,000....
, Ramla
Ramla

Ramla , is a city in central Israel with a mixed Arab and Jewish population. Ramla was founded circa 705?715 CE by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman ibn Abed al-Malik....
, Safad, Ashdod
Ashdod

Ashdod , is the List of Israeli cities in Israel, located in the South District of the country, on the Mediterranean Sea Israeli Coastal Plain, with a population of 207,000....
 (Isdud), Ashkelon
Ashkelon

Ashkelon or Ashqelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Bronze Age. In the course of its history, it has been ruled by the Canaanites, the Philistines, the Babylonians, the Phoenicians, the Ancient Romes, the Muslims and the Crusaders....
 (Majdal), Tiberias
Tiberias

Tiberias is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. It was named in honour of the emperor Tiberius....
 and Bet She'an
Bet She'an

is a city in the North District of Israel which has played an important role historically due to its geographical location at the junction of the Jordan River and Jezreel Valley....
 (Beisan), which generally had majority Arab populations before the war. 422 villages are listed.

District of Acre
District of Acre

The District of Acre or Sanjak Akka was one of the districts of the Damascus Wilayah Wilayah established by the Ottoman Empire in Ottoman Palestine....
 
  • al-Amqa
    Amqa

    Amka is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's North District , near City of Acre. It was founded in 1949 by a group of Yemenite Jewish immigrants....
  • Arab al-Samniyya
    Arab al-Samniyya

    Arab al-Samniyya , also known as Khirbat al-Suwwana, is a depopulated Palestinian village in the Galilee#Western Galilee that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • al-Bassa
    Al-Bassa

    al-Bassa, , also known as Betzet , and LeBassah , is a former Palestinian village close to Blue Line , situated in the British Mandate of Palestine's District of Acre....
  • al-Birwa
    Al-Birwa

    Al-Birwa was a Palestinian people Arab village, located east of Acre, Israel . Mentioned by Arab geographers in the 11th century, it was known to the Crusaders as Broet....
  • al-Damun
    Al-Damun

    Al-Damun was a Palestinian village located from the city of Acre, Israel that was depopulated during 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In 1945, the village had a population of 1,310, predominantly Muslim....
  • Dayr al-Qassi
    Dayr al-Qassi

    Dayr al-Qassi or Deir el-Qasi is a former Palestinian village located 26km northeast of the city of Acre. According to a 1945 census the village had a population of 2,300 at a time where the village was apart of larger town also containing the two villages of Fassuta and al-Mansura, Acre....
  • al-Ghabisiyya
    Al-Ghabisiyya

    Al-Ghabisiyya was an Arab village in northern British Mandate of Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre, Israel in present-day Israel. It was depopulated by Israel during the 1948-1950 period and remains deserted....
  • Iqrit
    Iqrit

    Iqrit was a Palestinian people village, located 25 kilometers northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form part of an Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was captured and depopulated by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Iribbin, Khirbat
    Iribbin, Khirbat

    Khirbat Iribbin is a former Palestinian village in the Upper Galilee located 23km northeast of the city of Acre, Israel. In 1945 it had a built-up land area of over 2,000 dunams and a population 360 Muslim Arabs....
  • Jiddin, Khirbat
    Jiddin, Khirbat

    Jiddin, Khirbat is former Palestinian village in the Galilee located 16km northeast from city of Acre. According to a 1945 census the village had a population of approximately 1,500 Arabs....
  • al-Kabri
    Al-Kabri

    Al-Kabri was a Palestinian town located 12.5 kilometers northeast of Acre, Israel that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Kafr Bir'im
    Kafr Bir'im

    Kafr Bir'im, also Kefr Berem , was a Christian Arab village in the British Mandate of Palestine. The village was in the territory allotted to the Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan ....
  • Kafr 'Inan
    Kafr 'Inan

    Kafr 'Inan was a Palestinian village in the District of Acre around east of Acre, Israel. It was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Kuwaykat
    Kuwaykat

    Kuwaykat was a Palestinian people village 9km northeast of Acre in the British mandate District of Acre. Depopulated as a result of Military assault and capture by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war in Operation Dekel by Sheva' Brigade and Carmeli Brigade....
  • al-Manshiyya
    Al-Manshiyya

    Al-Manshiyya was a Palestinian village with a shrine for Baha' Allah, who was the founder of the Baha'i religious sect, and an Islamic orphanage and a mosque known by the mosque of Abu 'Atiyya, which is still standing but requires renovation....
  • al-Mansura
    Al-Mansura, Acre

    al-Mansura was a Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.See also ...
  • Mi'ar
    Mi'ar

    Mi'ar was a Palestinian people village located 17.5 kilometers east of Acre, Israel. Mi'ar contains the remains of buildings, fragments of columns, olive presses, and cisterns....
  • al-Nabi Rubin
  • al-Nahr
    Al-Nahr

    al-Nahr was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre. The military assault of al-Nahr was part of the Israeli Operation Ben-Ami carried out by the Carmeli Brigade....
  • al-Ruways
    Al-Ruways

    al-Ruways was a Palestinian people village of 330 on a rocky hill located southeast of Acre, Israel and south of al-Damun....
  • Suhmata
    Suhmata

    Suhmata was a Palestinian people village, located northeast of Acre, Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • al-Sumayriyya
  • Suruh
    Suruh

    Suruh was a Palestinian people Arab hamlet, located northeast of Acre, Israel. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the inhabitants of Suruh, the neighbouring hamlet of Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre and the main village of Tarbikha, were given expulsion orders by Israeli forces of the Oded Brigade....
  • al-Tall
    Al-Tall

    Al-Tall was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre, Israel in the British Mandate District of Acre. Depopulated as a result of Military assault and capture by Israel during the 1948 Palestine war as part of Operation Operation Ben-Ami by the Carmeli Brigade....
  • Tarbikha
    Tarbikha

    Tarbikha was a Palestinian town 27km Northeast of Acre, Israel in the British Mandate District of Acre that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Umm al-Faraj
    Umm al-Faraj

    Umm al-Faraj was a Palestinian people village, located 11 kilometres northeast of Acre, Israel and 7 kilometers from the Lebanese border.The entire population was refugees of Turkic-Shiite-Muslim background, and were known to the Arabs as Tatars or simply Turki....
  • al-Zeeb
    Al-Zeeb

    az-Zeeb or al-Zib was a Palestinian people village located 13.5 kilometers north of Acre, Israel along the coast of the Galilee....


District of Baysan
  • Arab al-'Arida
    Arab al-'Arida

    Arab al-'Arida is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab and Jewish village and 6km south of the city of Baysan . It is the site of the modern kibbutz Sde Eliyahu....
  • Arab al-Bawati
  • Arab al-Safa
  • al-Ashrafiyya
  • al-Bira
  • Danna
    Danna

    Danna was a Palestinian village 13 kilometres north of Baysan that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Farwana
    Farwana

    Farwana was a Palestinian people village, located 4.5 kilometers south of Bet Shean. Identified with the ancient city of Rehov, extant during Ancient Egypt rule over Canaan in the second millennium BCE, archaeological sites located on the former village's lands include Tell es-Sarem and the remains of a synagogue from the third...
  • al-Fatur
  • al-Ghazzawiyya
    Al-Ghazzawiyya

    Al-Ghazzawiyya was a former Palestinian and Jewish village located 2 kilometers east of the city of Bet Shean . In 1945, the village population was 1,640, 62% Arab and 38% Jewish....
  • al-Hamidiyya
  • al-Hamra
  • Jabbul
    Jabbul

    Jabbul is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab village located7 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade....
  • Kafra
  • Kawkab al-Hawa
    Kawkab al-Hawa

    Kawkab al-Hawa is a depopulated former Palestinian village located11 km north of Baysan. Kawkab al-Hawa contains the Crusaders fortress of Belvoir Fortress ....
  • al-Khunayzir
  • Masil al-Jizl
  • al-Murassas
  • Qumya
    Qumya

    Qumya was a Palestinian people village of 510 inhabitants when it was depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.Located 12.5 kilometers north of Beit Shean, the village was assaulted by the forces of the Golani Brigade on 26 March 1948 during Operation Gideon, on the orders of Yosef Weitz, a representative of the Jewish National Fund...
  • al-Sakhina
  • al-Samiriyya
  • Sirin
  • Tall al-Shawk
  • al-Taqa, Khirbat
  • al-Tira
  • Umm 'Ajra
  • Umm Sabuna, Khirbat
  • Yubla
    Yubla

    Yubla was a Palestinian people village, located 9 kilometers north of Bet Shean in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Zab'a
  • al-Zawiya, Khirbat


District of Beersheba
  • al-Imara
    Al-Imara

    al-Imara was a Palestinian village, located in the northern Negev 27 kilometers northwest of the city of Beersheba. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village was captured by the Yiftach Brigade in early October, meeting with no resistance....
  • al-Jammama
    Al-Jammama

    Al-Jammama is a former Palestinian village located in the Negev Desert 30km west of the city of Beersheba....
  • al-Khalasa
    Al-Khalasa

    Al-Khalasa was a Palestinian people village, located 23 kilometers southwest of the city of Beersheba. The village was originally founded by the Nabateans under the name of "al-Khalus", and then "Elusa" under the Byzantines where it served an administrative center in the Negev Desert....


District of Gaza
District of Gaza

The District of Gaza was an administrative district, situated in the southern Mediterranean coastline of the British Mandate of Palestine. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated, with Israel controlling the northern and eastern portions while Egypt held control of the southern and central parts - which became the Gaza Str...
 
  • Arab Suqrir
  • Barbara
    Barbara, Gaza

    Barbara was a Palestinian village in the District of Gaza located 17km northeast of Gaza City, in the vicinity of modern Ashkelon. It had an entirely Arab population of 2,410 in 1945 ....
  • Barqa
  • al-Batani al-Gharbi
  • al-Batani al-Sharqi
  • Beit Daras
    Beit Daras

    Beit Daras or Bayt Daras was a Palestinian people Arab town located on the Lachish River, 32 kilometers northeast of Gaza and approximately 50 meters above sea level....
  • Bayt 'Affa
  • Bayt Jirja
    Bayt Jirja

    Bayt Jirja was a Palestinian village 15.5 km Northeast of Gaza. In 1931 the village consisted of 115 houses. It was overrun by Israeli forces during operation Yo'av in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Bayt Tima
  • Bil'in
  • Burayr
    Burayr

    Burayr was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, northeast of Gaza City. Its population in 1945 was 2,740 and it was depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  • Dayr Sunayd
  • Dimra
  • al-Faluja
    Al-Faluja

    al-Faluja was an Arab village in the British Mandate Palestine, located 30 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. The village and the neighbouring village of Iraq al-Manshiyya formed part of the Faluja pocket, where 4,000 Military of Egypt were besieged for four months by the newly established Israel Defense Forces....
  • Hamama
    Hamama

    Hamama was a Palestinian people town of over 5,000 inhabitants that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 24 kilometers north of Gaza, between Ashkelon and Ashdod....
  • Hatta
    Hatta (abandoned Arab village)

    Hatta was a Palestinian village of 1,125 inhabitants that was depopulated after a 17 July 1948 assault by Israeli forces of the Giv'ati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Hiribya
  • Huj
    Huj

    Huj was a Palestinian village located northeast of Gaza City. Identified as the site of the ancient Philistine town of Oga, the modern village was founded by the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century....
  • Hulayqat
  • Ibdis
    Ibdis

    Ibdis was a Palestinian people village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza City. It was situated on flat ground on the coastal plain at an elevation of above sea level, and bordered by a wadi that bore its name on its eastern side....
  • Iraq al-Manshiyya
    Iraq al-Manshiyya

    Iraq al-Manshiyya is a former Palestinian town located 32km northeast of Gaza City. Its total land area consisted of 13,838 dunams. According to the British Mandate of Palestine, the town had a population of 2,010 Arabs and 210 Jews in 1945....
  • Iraq Suwaydan
  • Isdud
    Isdud

    Isdud Palestinian Arab town that was depopulated after a 28 October 1948 assault by Israeli forces.During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Egyptian Army took over Isdud on May 29, 1948, and the town became the northern-most advancement point of the Egyptian forces....
  • al-Jaladiyya
  • al-Jiyya
    Al-Jiyya

    al-Jiyya was a Palestinian people village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Located 19 kilometers northeast of Gaza City, according to a 1945 census, the village had a population of 1,230....
  • Julis
  • al-Jura
    Al-Jura

    Al-Jura was a Palestinian people village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located approximately two kilometers west of Ashkelon#History of the modern city ....
  • Jusayr
  • Karatiyya
    Karatiyya

    Karatiyya was a Palestinian people village of 1,370, located northeast of Gaza, situated in a flat area with an elevation of along the coastal plain of Palestine and crossed by Wadi al-Mufrid....
  • Kawfakha
    Kawfakha

    Kawfakha was a Palestinian village located east of Gaza City that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kawfakha with al-Muharraqa was raided by the Palmach's Negev Brigade on May 27-28, and a New York Times correspondent reported it was officially captured on May 29....
  • Kawkaba
    Kawkaba

    Kawkaba...
  • al-Khisas
  • al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
  • al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
  • al-Muharraqa
    Al-Muharraqa

    Al-Muharraqa was a Palestinian people village in the District of Gaza, located east of Gaza City. The village laid on rolling terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine, on a bend in the wadi....
  • Najd
  • Ni'ilya
  • Qastina
    Qastina

    Qastina was a Palestinian people village, located 38 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
  • al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
  • al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
  • Simsim
  • Summil
  • Tall al-Turmus
  • Yasur


District of Haifa
District of Haifa

The District of Haifa was an administrative Districts of the British Mandate of Palestine of the British Mandate of Palestine that covered the northern Mediterranean coast of regional Palestine, southwestern Galilee, and the Wadi Ara region....
 
  • Abu Shusha
  • Abu Zurayq
  • Arab al-Fuqara
  • Arab al-Nufay'at
  • Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
  • Ayn Ghazal
  • Ayn Hawd
  • Balad al-Shaykh
  • Barrat Qisarya
  • Burayka
  • al-Burj, Khirbat
  • al-Butaymat
  • Daliyat al-Rawha'
  • al-Dumun, Khirbat
  • al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
  • al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
  • Hawsha
  • Ijzim
    Ijzim

    Ijzim was a Palestinian people village located in the Haifa district of British Mandate Palestine, 19.5 kilometers south of the city, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Jaba'
  • al-Jalama
    Al-Jalama

    Al-Jalama was a Palestinian village about 14 kilometres south-east of Haifa. It was ethnically cleansed in 1948....
  • Kabara
  • al-Kafrayn
  • Kafr Lam
    Kafr Lam

    Kafr Lam was a Palestinian people Arab village located south of Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea. The name of the village was shared with that of an Islamic fort constructed there early on in the period of Palestine#Arab Caliphate rule in Palestine....
  • al-Kasayir, Khirbat
  • Khubbayza
  • Lid, Khirbat
  • al-Manara, Khirbat
  • al-Mansi
    Al-Mansi

    Al-Mansi and also called was a Palestinian people town in Haifa District. It was occupied and ethnically cleansed in April 12, 1948 by Israeli troops....
  • al-Mansura, Khirbat
  • al-Mazar
  • al-Naghnaghiyya
  • Qannir
    Qannir

    Qannir was a Palestinian people village, located 35 kilometers south of Haifa. In the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, most of the women and children from among the more than 750 inhabitants fled in fear of impending or surrounding attacks, and/or on Arab orders....
  • Qira
  • Qisarya
    Qisarya

    The settlement of Qisarya was established in 1884 by Circassian Bushnaks who built a small fishing village on the ruins of Caesarea Maritima by the Crusader fortress near Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast....
  • Qumbaza, Khirbat
  • al-Rihaniyya
  • Sabbarin
    Sabbarin

    Sabbarin was a former Palestinian people village located 28 kilometers south of Haifa. According to the 1931 census of Palestine, the village had a population of 1,108 inhabitants and the village's lands spanned 25,307 dunams....
  • al-Sarafand
    Al-Sarafand

    Al-Sarafand was an Palestinian people village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596....
  • al-Sarkas, Khirbat
  • Sa'sa', Khirbat
  • al-Sawamir
  • al-Shuna, Khirbat
  • al-Sindiyana
  • al-Tantura
    Al-Tantura

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  • al-Tira
    Al-Tira (Haifa)

    Al-Tira also called Tirat al-Lawz or "Tira of the almonds" to distinguish it from other al-Tiras) was a Palestinian people town located 7 kilometres south of Haifa....
  • Umm al-Shawf
  • Umm al-Zinat
  • Wa'arat al-Sarris
  • Wadi Ara (village)
    Wadi Ara (village)

    Wadi Ara is a former Palestinian village located 38.5km south of the city of Haifa. It is named after the nearby stream that is known in Arabic as Wadi 'Ara....
  • Yajur


District of Hebron
  • Ajjur
    Ajjur

    'Ajjur' was a Palestinian people village of over 3,700 inhabitants located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron. It was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, during which all of its inhabitants fled or were expelled....
  • Barqusya
  • Bayt Jibrin
    Bayt Jibrin

    Bayt Jibrin was a Palestinian people Arab village located northwest of the city of Hebron. In the last census of Palestine in 1945, the population was 2,430....
  • Bayt Nattif
  • al-Dawayima
    Al-Dawayima

    Al-Dawayima was a Palestinian town, located 18 kilometers northwest of the city of Hebron. It is identified with the Old Testament town of Bosqat....
  • Dayr al-Dubban
  • Dayr Nakhkhas
  • Kudna
    Kudna

    Kudna was a Palestinian people Arab village, located 25 kilometers northwest of Hebron. In a 1931 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate Palestine, there were 353 registered inhabitants living there....
  • Mughallis
  • al-Qris Horkins
  • al-Qubayba
    Al-Qubayba

    al-Qubayba was a Palestinian people village, located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron.Known in Crusades times as Deirelcobebe, the ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish lay adjacent to the village, which was subject to extensive archaeological excavations by the British Mandate Palestine authorities in Palestine, and by Isr...
  • Ra'na
    Ra'na

    Ra'na was a village located approximately 26 km northwest of Hebron. It was occupied by Israeli occupying forces during Operation Yo'av in October 1948....
  • Tall al-Safi
  • Umm Burj, Khirbat
  • az-Zakariyya
    Az-Zakariyya

    Az-Zakariyya or Zakaria was a Palestinian Arab village 25km northwest from the city of Hebron in the Judean Mountains that was depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  • Zayta


District of Jaffa
  • al-'Abbasiyya
  • Abu Kishk
  • Bayt Dajan
    Bayt Dajan

    Bayt Dajan was a Palestinian people village situated approximately six kilometers southeast of Jaffa. It was depopulated after an assault by the Alexandroni Brigade during Operation Chametz on 25 April 1948 in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Biyar 'Adas
    Biyar 'Adas

    Biyar 'Adas is a former Palestinian village located 19km northeast of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo. In 1945 the village had a population of 300 and a total land area of 5,492 dunams....
  • Fajja
    Fajja

    Fajja is a former Palestinian Arab town located 15 kilometers northwest of Jaffa. In 1945, the town had a population 1,570 inhabitants including 370 Jews and a total land area of 4,419 dunams....
  • al-Haram
  • Ijlil al-Qibliyya
  • Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
  • al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
  • al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
  • Jarisha
    Jarisha

    Jarisha was a Palestinian people Arab village located 200 meters from the ancient site of Tell Jarisha, on the south bank of the Al-Awja river....
  • Kafr 'Ana
    Kafr 'Ana

    Kafr 'Ana is a former Palestinian town located 11km east of Tel Aviv-Yafo and was captured by pre-state Israeli forces prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and depopulated....
  • al-Khayriyya
    Al-Khayriyya

    Al-Khayriyya was a Palestinian people village located 7.5 kilometers east of Yafo. Its inhabitants fled as a result of a military assault by the Alexandroni Brigade of the pre-state Israeli forces in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • al-Mas'udiyya
  • al-Mirr
  • al-Muwaylih
  • Rantiya
    Rantiya

    Rantiya was a Palestinian people village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate Palestine, it had a population of approximately 600 inhabitants....
  • al-Safiriyya
  • Salama
    Salama (town)

    Salama was a Palestinian people Arab village, located five kilometers east of Jaffa, that was depopulated in the lead up the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  • Saqiya
  • al-Sawalima
  • al-Shaykh Muwannis
    Al-Shaykh Muwannis

    Al-Shaykh Muwannis was Palestinian people Arab a small village in the Jaffa in British Mandate Palestine. Located approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of Jaffa city, the Yarkon River flows through what were the farming of the village....
  • Yazur
    Yazur

    Yazur was a British Mandate Village town located east of Jaffa. Mentioned in 7th century BCE Assyrian texts, the village was a site of contestation between Muslims and Crusades in the 12th century....


District of Jerusalem
  • Allar
  • Aqqur
  • Artuf
    Artuf

    Artuf was an Arab village in the Jerusalem foothills....
  • Bayt 'Itab
    Bayt 'Itab

    Bayt 'Itab was a Palestinian people village depopulated after its capture by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.It was once a thriving village inhabited by 662 residents from the Lahham family but it was completely demolished after its assault by Israeli forces on 21 October 1948....
  • Bayt Mahsir
  • Bayt Naqquba
    Bayt Naqquba

    Bayt Naqquba was a Palestinian people village in British Mandate Palestine, located 9.5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, near Abu Ghosh. Before Palmach and Haganah troops occupied the village during Operation Nachshon on April 1, 1948 approximately 300 Palestinian Arabs lived there....
  • Bayt Thul
  • Bayt Umm al-Mays
  • al-Burayj
  • Colonia
  • Dayr Aban
  • Dayr 'Amr
  • Dayr al-Hawa
  • Dayr Rafat
  • Dayr al-Shaykh
  • Deir Yassin
    Deir Yassin

    Deir Yassin , was an Arab village, lying 1,400 meters to the north of what is now Yad Vashem, which had declared its neutrality during the 1948 Palestine war....
  • Ein Karim
  • Ishwa
  • Islin
    Islin

    Islin Of the site today, Walid Khalidi writes: "Partially destroyed walls and stone terraces can be seen throughout the site. A thick forest, bushes, and grass grow over and around the stone rubble....
  • Ism Allah, Khirbat
  • Jarash
  • al-Jura
    Al-Jura

    Al-Jura was a Palestinian people village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located approximately two kilometers west of Ashkelon#History of the modern city ....
  • Kasla
  • al-Lawz, Khirbat
  • Lifta
    Lifta

    Lifta was a village on the outskirts of Jerusalem that had existed since Biblical times and was named after Pharaoh Merneptah. It was the northernmost demarcation point of the territory of the Tribe of Judah ....
  • al-Maliha
  • Nitaf
  • al-Qabu
  • al-Qastal
    Al-Qastal

    Al-Qastal was a Palestinian people village that was depopulated in the lead up the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Located 8 kilometers west of Jerusalem, al-Qastal was defended by the Arab Liberation Army and the Army of the Holy War, led by Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni....
  • Ras Abu 'Ammar
  • Sar'a
    Sar'a

    Sar'a , was a Palestinian village located 25 km west of Jerusalem. The Canaanites referred to Sar'a by the name of Sur'a or Zorah, subsequently it was known by Danite, then the Romans called it Sarea....
  • Saris
    Saris

    Saris was a Palestinian village that was depopulated after an assault by pre-state Israeli forces on 6 April 1948 during Operation Nachshon in the lead up to 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  • Sataf
  • Sheikh Badr
    Sheikh Badr

    Sheikh Badr was an Arab village on a hilltop in west Jerusalem that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. During the British Mandate of Palestine it was part of the Jerusalem municipality....
  • Suba
    Suba, Jerusalem

    Suba was an Arab village west of Jerusalem that was depopulated and destroyed in 1948. The site of the village lies on the summit of a conical hill called Tel Tzuba , or Jabal Suba, rising 769 metres above sea level, and it was built on the ruins of a Crusader castle....
  • Sufla
  • al-Tannur, Khirbat
  • al-'Umur, Khirbat
  • al-Walaja
    Al-Walaja

    al-Walaja is a Palestinian town located in an enclave in the West Bank Seam Zone, four kilometers northwest of the city of Bethlehem in the Bethlehem Governorate and is also a part of Israel's Jerusalem municipality....


District of Jenin
  • Ayn al-Mansi
  • al-Jawfa, Khirbat
    Al-Jawfa, Khirbat

    Al-Jawfa, Khirbat was a Palestinian people village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was occupied by the forces of the Golani Brigade as part of Operation Gideon on 12 May 1948....
  • al-Lajjun
  • al-Mazar
  • Nuris
  • Zir'in
    Zir'in

    Zir'in was a Palestinian people village of over 1,400 in the Jezreel Valley, located north of Jenin. Identified as the Canaanite town of Yizre'el, it was known as Zir'in during Islamic rule, and was near the site of the Battle of Ain Jalut, in which the Mamluks halted Mongol expansion southward....


District of Nazareth
  • Indur
    Indur

    Indur was a Palestinian people village, located 10.5 kilometres southeast of Nazareth. It is thought to have been the site of the ancient Canaanite city of Endor ....
  • Ma'lul
    Ma'lul

    Ma'lul was an Arab village in Palestine, made up primarily of Palestinian Christians, that was depopulated and destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • al-Mujaydil
    Al-Mujaydil

    Al-Mujaydil...
  • Saffuriyya
  • al-Subeih


District of Ramla
  • Abu al-Fadl
    Abu al-Fadl (village)

    Abu al-Fadl was a village in the district of al-Ramla, about 13 km Southeast of Jaffa in, what was until 1948, Palestine. The village was also known as al-Satariyya....
  • Abu Shusha
    Abu Shusha

    Abu Shusha was an Arab village in Palestine, 8 km southeast of Ramle. It was depopulated in 1948 and later demolished by Israeli forces.Abu Shusha was located on the slope of Tel Jazar, which is commonly identified with the ancient city of Gezer....
  • Ajanjul
  • Aqir
  • Barfiliya
  • al-Barriyya
  • Bashshit
  • Bayt Far, Khirbat
  • Bayt Jiz
    Bayt Jiz

    Bayt Jiz was a Palestinian people village situated on undulating land in the western foothills of the Jerusalem heights, southwest of Ramla. In 1945, it had a population of 550....
  • Bayt Nabala
  • Bayt Shanna
  • Bayt Susin
  • Bir Ma'in
  • Bir Salim
  • al-Burj
    Al-Burj

    al-Burj is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,464 in mid-year 2006....
  • al-Buwayra, Khirbat
  • Daniyal
  • Dayr Abu Salama
  • Dayr Ayyub
  • Dayr Muhaysin
  • Dayr Tarif
  • al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat
  • al-Haditha
  • Idnibba
    Idnibba

    Idnibba was a Palestinian village, located at latitude 31.7426937 and longitude 34.8561001, in the southern part of Ramla district. It was ethnically cleansed in 1948, at which time its population was 568, and its lands are now used by Kfar Menahem....
  • Innaba
  • Jilya
  • Jimzu
    Jimzu

    Jimzu was a Palestinian people village, located three miles southeast of Lod. Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan of British Mandate Palestine, Jimzu was to form part of the proposed Arab state....
  • Kharruba
  • al-Khayma
  • Khulda
  • al-Kunayyisa
  • al-Latrun
  • al-Maghar
  • Majdal Yaba
    Majdal Yaba

    Majdal Yaba was a Palestinian people village of over 1,500, located northeast of Ramla and east of Jaffa. A walled city stood at the same site as early as 3000 BCE, and Majdal Yaba is first mentioned by name in texts dating to the 19th century BCE....
  • al-Mansura, Ramla
  • al-Mukhayzin
  • al-Muzayri'a
    Al-Muzayri'a

    al-Muzayri'a is a village near Alled in the district of Ramla. It is at an altitude of 100 m above sea level and is about 12Km north of Alled....
  • al-Na'ani
  • Nabi Rubin
    Nabi Rubin

    Al-Nabi Rubin was an Arab village in central Palestine, located west of Ramla, just northeast of Yibna and south of Jaffa. The village was situated on the southern banks of Wadi al-Sarar also known as Sorek Stream at an elevation of below sea level....
  • Qatra
    Qatra

    Qatra was a Palestinian people Arab village located southwest of the city of Ramla and west of Jerusalem, some above sea level....
  • Qazaza
    Qazaza

    Qazaza During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Qazaza was defended by the Egyptian Army and local militiamen. Its population of an estimated 1,090 Arabs fled after the fall of a neighbouring town ....
  • al-Qubab
  • al-Qubayba
    Al-Qubayba

    al-Qubayba was a Palestinian people village, located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron.Known in Crusades times as Deirelcobebe, the ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish lay adjacent to the village, which was subject to extensive archaeological excavations by the British Mandate Palestine authorities in Palestine, and by Isr...
  • Qula
    Qula

    Qula was a Palestinian people village in the British Mandate District of Ramla 15 km northeast of Ramla, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Sajad
    Sajad

    Sajad was a Palestinian people village, located sixteen kilometers south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Salbit
  • Sarafand al-'Amar
  • Sarafand al-Kharab
  • Saydun
  • Shahma
  • Shilta
  • al-Tina
  • al-Tira
  • Umm Kalkha
  • Wadi Hunayn
  • Yibna
    Yibna

    Yibna was a Palestinian people village of over 5,420 inhabitants, located 15 kilometers southwest of Ramla.The village was overtaken by Israeli forces on 4 June 1948....
  • Zakariyya, Khirbat
  • Zarnuqa


District of Safad
  • Abil al-Qamh
    Abil al-Qamh

    Abil al-Qamh is an uninhabited Palestinian people village located north of Safad and south of the Blue Line . It was built in a hilly area north of the Hula Valley....
  • al-'Abisiyya
  • Alma
  • Ammuqa
    Ammuqa

    Ammuqa was a Palestinian people village, located five kilometres northeast of Safed. Known locally for its seven springs, Ammuqa also enjoyed renown as the site of the sepulchre of Jonathan ben Uzziel....
  • Arab al-Shamalina
  • Arab al-Zubayd
  • Ayn al-Zaytun
  • Baysamun
  • Biriyya
  • al-Butayha
  • al-Buwayziyya
  • Dallata
  • al-Dawwara
  • Dayshum
  • al-Dirbashiyya
  • al-Dirdara
  • Fara
  • al-Farradiyya
  • Fir'im
  • Ghabbatiyya
  • Ghuraba
  • al-Hamra'
  • Harrawi
  • Hunin
  • al-Husayniyya
  • Jahula
  • al-Ja'una
  • Jubb Yusuf
  • Kafr Bir'im
    Kafr Bir'im

    Kafr Bir'im, also Kefr Berem , was a Christian Arab village in the British Mandate of Palestine. The village was in the territory allotted to the Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan ....
  • al-Khalisa
    Al-Khalisa

    al-Khalisa was a Palestinian people village situated on a low hill on the northwestern edge of the Hula Valley of over 1,800 located north of Safad....
  • Khan al-Duwayr
  • Karraza, Khirbat
  • al-Khisas
    Al-Khisas

    Al-Khisas was a Palestinian village in the British mandate of Palestine District of Safad. Situated on the Eastern bank of Hasbani River, 31 kilometers North East of Safad....
  • Khiyam al-Walid
  • Kirad al-Baqqara
  • Kirad al-Ghannama
  • Lazzaza
    Lazzaza

    Lazzaza was a Palestinian people village of 230 in the northern Hula Valley next to the Hasbani River, located northwest of Safad....
  • Madahil
  • al-Malikiyya
    Al-Malikiyya

    al-Malikiyya was an Arab village located on the border between the British Mandate of Palestine and Lebanon, north-northeast of the town of Safed....
  • Mallaha
    Mallaha

    Mallaha was a Palestinian people Arab village, located northeast of Safad, on the highway between the latter and Tiberias. 'Ain Mallaha is the local Arabic language name for a spring that served as the water source for the village inhabitants throughout the ages....
  • al-Manshiyya
  • al-Mansura, Safad
  • Mansurat al-Khayt
  • Marus
    Marus

    Marus was a Palestinian village 7 km northeast of Safad in the District of Safad, that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war during the Israeli military operation Operation Hiram...
  • Mirun
  • al-Muftakhira
  • Mughr al-Khayt
  • al-Muntar, Khirbat
  • al-Nabi Yusha'
  • al-Na'ima
  • Qabba'a
  • Qadas
    Qadas

    Qadas was a village located 17 kilometers northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. One of seven Shiite Muslim villages called Metawalis that fell within the boundaries of British Mandate Palestine, Qadas lay adjacent to Nebi Yusha, near the tel of the Biblical city of Kedesh Naftali....
  • Qaddita
    Qaddita

    Qaddita was a Palestinian people village of 240, located northwest of Safad. It was captured and depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, with some of its inhabitants fleeing to nearby Akbara where they live as internally displaced Palestinians and others to refugee camps in Lebanon or Syria....
  • Qaytiyya
  • al-Qudayriyya
  • al-Ras al-Ahmar
  • Sabalan
  • Safsaf
    Safsaf

    Safsaf was a Palestinian people village located 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present day Israel. It?s villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Saliha
    Saliha

    Saliha was a Palestinian people village, located twelve kilometres north of Safad and one kilometer south of the border with Lebanon on the edge of a deep wadi known as Wadi Saliha....
  • al-Salihiyya
  • al-Sammu'i
  • al-Sanbariyya
  • Sa'sa'
    Sa'sa'

    Sa'sa was a Palestinian people village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • al-Shawka al-Tahta
  • al-Shuna
  • Taytaba
  • Tulayl
  • al-'Ulmaniyya
  • al-'Urayfiyya
  • al-Wayziyya
  • Yarda
  • al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta
  • al-Zanghariyya
  • al-Zawiya
  • al-Zuq al-Fawqani
  • al-Zuq al-Tahtani


District of Tiberias
  • Awlam
    Awlam

    Awlam was a Palestinian people village located south of Tiberias situated on the slopes of the westward Wadi Awlam....
  • al-Dalhamiyya
  • Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
  • Hadatha
  • al-Hamma
  • Hittin
    Hittin

    Hittin was a Palestinian people village, located approximately west of Tiberias. The site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which Saladin conquered most of interior Palestine from the Crusaders, Hittin is a nationalist symbol for Arabs and Palestinians....
  • Kafr Sabt
    Kafr Sabt

    Kafr Sabt was a Palestinian people village of nearly 500 situated on a sloping plain in the eastern Lower Galilee located southwest of Tiberias....
  • Lubya
    Lubya

    Lubya was a Palestinian town located ten kilometers west of Tiberias that was captured and destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  • Ma'dhar
  • al-Majdal
  • al-Manara
  • al-Manshiyya
  • al-Mansura, Tiberias
  • Nasir al-Din
  • Nimrin
    Nimrin

    Nimrin was a Palestinian people town of 320 that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  • al-Nuqayb
  • Samakh
  • al-Samakiyya
  • al-Samra
  • al-Shajara
    Al-Shajara

    al-Shajara is a former Palestinian people Arab village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 14 kilometers west of Tiberias on the main highway to Nazareth near the villages of Lubya and Hittin....
  • al-Tabigha
  • al-Ubaydiyya
  • al-Wa'ra al-Sawda', Khirbat
  • Yaquq


District of Tulkarm
  • Bayt Lid, Khirbat
  • Bayyarat Hannun
  • Fardisya
  • Ghabat Kafr Sur
  • al-Jalama
    Al-Jalama

    Al-Jalama was a Palestinian village about 14 kilometres south-east of Haifa. It was ethnically cleansed in 1948....
  • Kafr Saba
  • al-Majdal, Khirbat
  • al-Manshiyya
  • Miska
    Miska

    Miska was a Palestinian people village, located fifteen kilometers southwest of Tulkarem. Miska was founded by descendants of the Arabian tribe of Miskain in the 7th century Battle of Yarmouk....
  • Qaqun
    Qaqun

    Qaqun was a Palestinian Arab village located 6 kilometres northwest of the city of Tulkarem, at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain....
  • Raml Zayta
  • Tabsur
    Tabsur

    Tabsur , also known as Khirbat 'Azzun , was a Palestinian people village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarem. Made up of 231 houses in 1931 and an elementary school for boys, the village was depopulated prior to the outbreak of 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
  • Umm Khalid
    Umm Khalid

    Umm Khalid was a Palestinian village in the British mandate District of Tulkarm. was an ancient site in the central coastline of what is now the city of Netanya, Israel....
  • Wadi al-Hawarith
  • Wadi Qabbani
  • al-Zababida, Khirbat
  • Zalafa, Khirbat
    Zalafa, Khirbat

    Khirbat Zalafa was a small Palestinian village located about northwest of Tulkarm, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was captured by Yishuv forces on April 15, 1948 as a part of operation "Coastal Clearing."...


Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....


Arab villages

Four Arab villages located in the Latrun Corridor were destroyed based on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin

was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
 due to the corridor's strategic location and route to Jerusalem and because of the residents' alleged aiding of Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
ian commandos in their attack on the city of Lod
Lod

Lod is a mixed Arab-Jewish city about 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2007, its population was 67,000....
. The residents of the three villages were offered compensation but were not allowed to return.

The Latrun villages are the following.
  • Beit Nuba
  • Imwas
    Imwas

    Imwas was a Palestinian village located southeast of the city of Ramla and from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the West Bank. Often identified with the biblical Emmaus, over the course of two millennia, Imwas was intermittently inhabited and was ruled by the Ancient Rome, Byzantine empire, Arab caliphates, Crusaders, Ottoman empire, an...
  • Yalo
    Yalo

    Yalo was a Palestinian people Arab village located 13 kilometres southeast of Ramla. Identified by Edward Robinson as the ancient Canaanite city of Aijalon, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan formally annexed Yalo along with the rest of the West Bank....
  • Dayr Ayyub


Hebron/Bethlehem area
  • Surit
  • Beit Awwa
    Beit Awwa

    Beit Awwa is a Palestinian people town in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Hebron and 4 kilometers west of Dura ....
  • Beit Mirsem
  • Shuyukh


Jordan Valley
  • al-Jiftlik
    Al-Jiftlik

    al-Jiftlik is a Palestinian people town in the West Bank's Jordan Rift Valley. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics statistics for 2006, it was home to 4,401 and set on an area of 81,283 dunum....
     (depopulated but soon repopulated)
  • Agarith
  • Huseirat


Jerusalem area
  • Nebi Samwil
    Tomb of Samuel

    The Tomb of Samuel, , is the traditional burial site of the biblical Hebrew prophet Samuel , atop a steep hill at an elevation of 908 meters above sea level....


In the Negeb/Sinai Desert
  • Auja al-Hafir - Israel ended the Demilitarized zone around the village and occupaid it


In addition to the villages evacuated or where the residents were expelled in the West Bank during the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
, over 100,000 Golan Heights
Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
 residents were evacuated from about 25 villages whether on orders of the Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
n government or through fear of an attack by the Israeli Defense Forces and forced expulsion after the cease fire.

Golan Heights:
  • Deir El Bteha
  • Derbahiya
  • Hafar
  • Massakieh
  • Saiyada


1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

  • Atzmona
    Bnei Atzmon

    Bnei Atzmon was an Israeli settlement originally founded in 1979 in the Yamit region of the Sinai Peninsula peninsula as a response to Camp David Accords which promoted trading land for peace....
  • Netiv HaAsara, Sinai
    Netiv HaAsara, Sinai

    Netiv HaAsara was a moshav and Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula. Located near Yamit, it was founded in 1973 and was named for ten soldiers that were killed in a helicopter accident south of Rafah in 1971....
  • Ofira
    Ofira

    Ofira was an Israeli settlement in the Sharm el-Sheikh area of the southern Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian territory that was under Israeli occupation from 1967 to 1982....
  • Yamit
    Yamit

    Yamit was an Israeli settlement. It was home to about 2,500 people in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula that was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War, until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty....


Second Intifada

As a part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza pull-out plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Prime Ministers of Israel Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four Israeli settlements in the northern West...
, there was a retreat from the Gaza Strip and the abandonment of twenty-one civilian Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
s 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.

In the Gaza Strip (all 21 settlements, as well as Bedouin village):
  • Bedolah
    Bedolah

    Bedolah was an Israeli settlement and army base in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip. Home to 220 religious Jews, its inhabitants were evicted, its houses demolished, and its land surrendered to the Palestinian National Authority as part of Israel's Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005...
  • Bnei Atzmon (Atzmona)
    Bnei Atzmon

    Bnei Atzmon was an Israeli settlement originally founded in 1979 in the Yamit region of the Sinai Peninsula peninsula as a response to Camp David Accords which promoted trading land for peace....
  • Dahaniyya (Bedouin)
  • Dugit
    Dugit

    Dugit was an Israeli settlement located in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip closest to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in a mini-settlement bloc including Elei Sinai and Nisanit....
  • Elei Sinai
    Elei Sinai

    Elei Sinai was an Israeli settlement in the north of Gaza Strip. It was established in 1982 by a group who had been evicted from Yamit. It was named for the yearning to return to the Sinai desert, where Yamit was located....
  • Gadid
    Gadid

    Gadid was an Israeli settlement located in the middle of the Gush Katif settlement bloc whose residents were expelled in Israel's Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005....
  • Gan Or
    Gan Or

    Gan Or was an Israeli settlement located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005....
  • Ganei Tal
    Ganei Tal

    Ganei Tal was an Israeli settlement in the south of the Gaza Strip. Located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, it was established as a moshav in 1979 with a primarily agricultural purpose; exporting Pelargoniums and tomatoes to Europe....
  • Katif
    Katif (moshav)

    Katif was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip, about 1 km north of the Palestinian refugee camp of Deir el-Balah. It was founded in 1977 as an Orthodox Judaism moshav....
  • Kfar Darom
    Kfar Darom

    Kfar Darom was a kibbutz and Israeli settlement within the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip....
  • Kfar Yam
    Kfar Yam

    Kfar Yam was a small outpost and one of the Gaza Strip Israeli Settlements abandoned in Israel's 2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. It was a non-religious community established in 1983, and had a population of 10 ....
  • Kerem Atzmona
    Kerem Atzmona

    Kerem Atzmona was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005....
  • Morag
    Morag, Gaza

    Morag was an Israeli settlement in Gush Katif, in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, evacuated in Israel's Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005....
  • Neveh Dekalim
  • Netzarim
    Netzarim (settlement)

    Netzarim was formerly an Israeli settlement established in Gaza in 1972. It began as a Secular Jewish culture Nahal outpost of the Hashomer Hatzair movement; in 1984 it became an Orthodox Judaism kibbutz....
  • Netzer Hazani
    Netzer Hazani

    Netzer Hazani was an Israeli settlement located in the northeast corner of the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005....
  • Nisanit
    Nisanit

    Nisanit was the largest Israeli settlement in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip in a mini-settlement bloc including Elei Sinai and Dugit. While Nisanit was under the municipal authority of the Hof Aza Regional Council it was not physically in the Gush Katif bloc where the bulk of the 'Gush Katif' settlements were located....
  • Pe'at Sade
    Pe'at Sade

    Pe'at Sadeh was an Israeli settlement, originally established in 1989 by a group of families on the 'Slav' Israel Defense Forces base in the southern end of Gush Katif and moved to its permanent site on an adjacent hill in 1993....
  • Rafiah Yam
    Rafiah Yam

    Rafiah Yam was an Israeli settlement, originally established in 1984 as a secular community in the southern end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, only 200 metres from the Egyptian border and close to the Palestinian city of Rafah....
  • Slav
    Slav (settlement)

    Slav was a Jewish village and Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, whose residents were evicted in Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005....
  • Shirat Hayam
    Shirat Hayam

    Shirat HaYam was an Israeli settlement established in 2001 on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea west of Neve Dekalim in the Gush Katif settlement bloc....
  • Tel Katifa
    Tel Katifa

    Tel Katifa , was a small Israeli settlement located in the northeast end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005....
    • In the West Bank (4 settlements):
  • Kadim
    Kadim

    Kadim was an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank under the administrative jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In September 2005 its residents were evicted and Israel Defense Forces soldiers began dismantling Kadim as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan....
  • Ganim
    Ganim

    Ganim was an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council.The settlement was founded in 1983 by members of Betar....
  • Homesh
    Homesh

    Homesh was an Israeli settlement in the northern Samarian Hills of the West Bank along Route 60 . The village fell under the administrative jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council....
  • Sa-Nur
    Sa-Nur

    Sa-Nur was an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank under the administrative jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. Prior to its demolition, Sa-nur was home to 43 families....


    • See also

    Palestinian refugee camps Jewish exodus from Arab lands
    Jewish exodus from Arab lands

    The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews background, from Arab and Islamic countries....
     List of Israeli military operations in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
    List of Israeli military operations in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

    Following is a list of major Israeli military operations in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war....
     List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
    List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

    Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War resulted in the death of about 1,000 civilians or unarmed soldiers....
     List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust
    List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust

    Below is a list of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust carried out under the Nazi regime during 1940-1945:Belarus...
     :Category:Villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict and its sub-categories

    External links

    (flash website - click Israel's Changing Borders and then Jewish Communities Lost)