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List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict

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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.

1880-1946

Arab villages

A small number of these villages were tenants on land which was sold by the Sursock family of Lebanon to Jewish organisations resulting in Arabs being evicted to make way for Jews.

Jewish villages

1929 Palestine riots

1936 Arab Revolt

1948 Arab-Israeli War

Arab villages

Main article: List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

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.

Jewish villages

Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem were abandoned following the 1948 Jordanian capture. It and some others on the list have been re-settled since the Six-Day War.

In areas that later became the State of Israel
In the West Bank and Gaza

Gush Etzion[2] near Jerusalem:

Gaza Strip:

Six-Day War

West Bank

Four 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.[3]

The Latrun villages are the following.

Hebron/Bethlehem area[6]

Jordan Valley[6]

Jerusalem area[6]

In the Negeb/Sinai Desert

  • Auja al-Hafir - Israel ended the Demilitarized zone around the village and occupied it

Golan Heights

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

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.[7] During the following months more than a hundred Arab villages were destroyed by Israel.[8]

1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

Israeli settlements

Several Israeli settlements in Sinai were evacuated as a result of the 1979 treaty.

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

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.

Israeli settlements

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

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://amudanan.co.il/?lon=35.121297&lat=32.7929&map=PEF
  2. ^ History of the Etzion Bloc: The Siege and Fall Page 8 of 11
  3. ^ Oren, 2002, pp. 307.
  4. ^ Palestine Remembered
  5. ^ Tal, David (2004) War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy Routledge, ISBN 071465275X, p 122
  6. ^ a b c UN Doc A/8389
  7. ^ UN Doc A/8089 5 October 1970
  8. ^ "The Fate of Abandoned Arab Villages, 1965-1969" by Aron Shai (History & Memory - Volume 18, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2006, pp. 86-106)

References

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