Old Photos & maps of Gaza ... An ancient place where people have lived longer than recorded history: It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices.

Palestinian Sheikh from Gaza, 1870 (Photo by Félix Bonfils, University of Pennsylvania Collection)

 

Gaza, Palestine circa c1900.

Early 1900's photo of watermelon vendors in Gaza, Palestine

Gaza in 1905, from the terrace of the Latin presbytery, next to the Catholic church of Gaza, recently bombed by the IDF

Gaza in 1922 Seen from Tell Harubah, the heart of ancient Gaza and occupied consistently since the Bronze Age

 

1920, Gaza, Palestine.

 

The ancient Byzantine Church of St Porphyrios, Gaza. Founded 425CE. Photographed by the Ecole Biblique 1922.  Bombed by the IDF 2024.

 

Gaza after surrender to the British after WWI.

 

Crusader-era oculus from the al-Umari mosque, Gaza Taken 1920

 

Crusader-era doorway from Gaza Photographed 1920 The trade connections of ancient Gaza From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.

Palestine... Gaza pottery merchants taking wares to market...Circa 1930's

Palestine... Unloading a great fish-net, Gaza. 1937

 

Palestine.... A camel-load of tibbin going to Gaza... Circa 1930s

 

1939, Gaza, Palestine:  Palestinian mounted police on one of the city’s streets.

 

1935, Aircraft Hanno, Imperial Airways, Gaza, Palestine 🇵🇸   The airfield was constructed in 1917 and one of the first to be built in Palestine.

 

Gaza's beach 1943

 

Gaza - The Main Road 1947

The trade connections of ancient Gaza  It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices.

Map of Mesopotamia - The Cradle of Civilization  

The trade connections of ancient Gaza mosaics- From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

  

10 December 1948 

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights 

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Palestine refugees at Khan Yunus camp in Gaza, near the Egyptian border. Nearly 200,000 refugees, mostly women and children were placed in the Gaza area, of a total of some 750,000 in camps and assembly centres throughout Palestine UN Photo Dec 1 1948  https://www.un.org/en

 

Palestinian refugees  in Gaza   1948

 

An old man looks yearningly toward his home through the barbed wire fence of the "Rimal and Beach Camp" which is the home of 17,000 Arab refugees on the shores of the Mediterranean just outside Gaza City. 1956 photo by INS Charles Arnot

 

A Palestinian refugee woman cross-stitching traditional Palestinian embroidery, Gaza, 1967. © UNRWA Photo Archives.  https://www.unrwa.org/

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Before & After 

 

 

 

Gaza Airport destroyed by Israel in 2001

Beaches in Gaza's seaside before Oct. 7.  2023 (AFP_File)

 

Gaza-AlHusaynaMosque-Before-After-Jan2024-MOHAMMEDABED-AFP

We are adding "yellow blocks" as a weapon on genocide dot live, to categorize videos, and we are rolling out a yellow blocks app on

@gazamaps

to track the movement of the blocks over time.

 

Guardian Screenshot- go to link  https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/dec/17/how-israel-yellow-line-dividing-gaza-deadly-consequences-video-explainer

 

Visualizing Palestine  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/gaza-stripped/

 

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Rebuild Gaza for Palestinians' needs- not corporate greed

The Green Party

@TheGreenParty

 

Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed over 70,000 Palestinians and destroyed or damaged over 90% of homes. 

 

Contractors in the US are now reportedly vying for contracts to rebuild the strip. 

 

Gaza’s future must be decided by Palestinians. Not by foreign powers or corporate greed.

 

https://x.com/TheGreenParty/status/2001687676496294252 

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Icon art by Kelly Latimore: "Christ in the Rubble," illustrates the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble."

  Icon art by Kelly Latimore: "Christ in the Rubble," illustrates the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble."   https://kellylatimoreicons.com/products/christ-in-the-rubble

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A young girl of Bethlehem in traditional Thob and Shatweh (Per Reem Ackall) ... Christians of Palestine

A young girl of Bethlehem in traditional Thob and Shatweh (Per Reem Ackall)

 https://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Bethlehem_8155/Picture_80284.html

Folklore, Dresses, & Debka

 

Palestine Remembered - Palestinian folklore, culture, dresses (thobs), debka (Samir)..etc including family portraits; especially during the pre-Nakba period. 

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To see humanity in everyone and want everyone to thrive is a beautiful way to live... Ms. Rachel

Fan Ms Rachel At Songs

@msrachelforlitt

Fan account

 

To see humanity in everyone and want everyone to thrive is a beautiful way to live.    https://x.com/msrachelforlitt/status/2000641931504754821/photo/1

#LetAidIntoGaza

https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search?q=Ms+Rachel

“I never thought I’d go on TV and beg for children not to be intentionally starved and that would be controversial.” Ms Rachel 

GLAMOUR: Ms. Rachel’s Dress at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 Awards Has a Special Meaning

"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them. I want my taxes to feed children, not starve them. I want to build a better world, not bomb it." Ms Rachel 

"Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,”" Ms Rachel, Glamour magazine's Women of the Year

"Imagine slashing SNAP, the program that helps children in the U.S. not go hungry- while sending billions in weapons to another country to kill other children" Ms Rachel for Littles

YouTube Star Ms Rachel Sings with 3 Year Old Double Amputee From Gaza

“What does it say about these times that the world trusts Ms. Rachel more than the New York Times?” Mo Amer in The New Yorker

Dear America- "ISRAEL SAYS" is not God talking.

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Israel's AI powered ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians being fueled & empowered by American technology : Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that the US chip giant will build its huge campus for up to 10,000 employees in Kiryat Tivon. December 18th 2025 ....

Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that the US chip giant will build its huge campus for up to 10,000 employees in Kiryat Tivon.  December 18th 2025 https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-Jensen-Huang-Israel-has-become-Nvidias-second-home-1001529537

Historic Palestine map prepared by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta 2022 https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases/maps/palestine

REPORTS

Dividing War Spoils

Israel's Seizure, Confiscation & Sale of Palestinian Property

Financing Racism and Apartheid

Jewish National Fund’s Violation of International and Domestic Law

https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases

 

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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict For Beginners

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story725.html 

Refugees 101, The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugees problem.

Ethnic Cleansing 101, how Palestinians became refugees.

Famous Zionist Quotes, here we introduce you to the foremost Zionist leaders BASED on what they said and wrote.

 

Mission Statement 

To provide a comprehensive source of information about the villages and cities that were ethnically cleansed, looted, and destroyed by the Israeli army. At each town's homepage, you will find pictures (both before and after Nakba of 1948), the current status of the town, the Israeli colonies that occupy the town's lands, a brief history of the town before and after Nakba, detailed accounts of atrocities and any acts of terror, personal accounts from the refugees themselves, and above all live interviews from refugees reciting their experiences before, during and after Nakba.  

https://www.palestineremembered.com/MissionStatement.htm

Qisarya - قيسارية, Haifa: فتاتان قرب بئر الماء في قيسارية قضاء حيفا 1943..

All Towns Lisiting: Cities & villages in the district of Haifa

• District Pictures
• Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
• Satellite 

 

District's population distribution

Year Total Muslim Arabs Christian Arabs Jews 1911 23,440 19,244 3,282 914 1916 30,737 23,823 3,691 1,117 1922 42,839 23,305* 11,032 6,425 1931 95,472** 52,830 16,492 23,367 1945 224,630 85,590 30,200 104,510 * In the Ottoman's period, Haifa district was made off 62 villages and that may have accounted for the population drop down in 1922. ** The number of houses in the municipality in 1931 was 21,335.

Ethnic cleansing

Based on declassified Israeli documents, the Israeli historian Benny Morris concluded that the Jewish civilian population (especially Haifa's Jewish mayor Shabtai Levy) was at peace with their Palestinian neighbors, but the Haganah and the IZL leadership had a different agenda to ethnically cleanse the city from its Palestinian Arab population. Benny Morris wrote: "In Haifa, the civilian authorities were saying one thing and the Haganah was doing something else altogether. Moreover, Haganah units in the field acted inconsistently and in a manner often unintelligible to the Arab population" (Benny Morris, p. 90). To expedite the ethnic cleansing process, the Haganah broadcasted terror messages, via loudspeakers, to psychologically terrorize the Arab inhabitants into fleeing. (Benny Morris, p. 76)

Refugees' migration route

The mass majority of Haifa's Palestinian population, numbering at least 35,000, were pushed into the sea. Similarly, Jaffa's population, numbering at least 50,000, suffered the same fate on May 13th,1948. Click here to view a map that illustrates refugees' migration routes. Via boats, many Palestinian refugees landed in Sour (Tyre), Sayda, and Beirut Lebanon, and some boats managed to land in Acre City. It's very sad that some of the people who landed in Acre were ethnically cleansed again few weeks later. Ironically, often Zionists accuse the Arabs of plotting to push the Jews into the sea!

City name through history

The city's name is derived from the Canaanite Arabic word al-Hayfah meaning nearby, and during the Roman period it was known by Efa. The Crusades called Haifa by Cayphas and sometime they referred to it also by Sycaminon (meaning Wild Strawberry which is abandoned in the area). During the Islamic period, Acre dominated the coastal area, and Haifa was just a small town. It is worth pointing out that Haifa is a modern and new city, which was initially developed by the Ottomans, and later on by the British Mandate and the Israelis.

District's size

Haifa's district covered an area of 1,031.76 square kilometers, of which Jews owned 364.28 square kilometers (35.3% of the overall district size). In 1945, the district was made of 52 villages, and 14 bedouin localities. The Israeli Zionists destroyed all of these villages and bedouin localities with the exception of 'Ablein, Shefa 'Amr, 'Ibtin, 'Ara and 'Ar'ara, Kafer Qare'a, 'Aseifa, and Dalyat al-Karmel (Palestinian Druze village).

 https://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Haifa/index.html

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