1935, Tiberias, Palestine 🇵🇸 Fishermen fixing their nets.

1935, Tiberias, Palestine  Fishermen fixing their nets.

 https://www.palestineremembered.com/Tiberias/Tiberias/Picture96158.html

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Palestinian Life Before The Nakba

Due to the religious ties of Palestine, it welcomed all religions with open arms. Neighbors, hospitals, and schools were a mix of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

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1939, Iqrit, Palestine - At the time of their eviction in November 1948, Iqrit was home to 491 residents, the majority of whom 432 were Melkite (Greek Catholic) Christians living throughout the village, the remaining 59 Muslim inhabitants either rented homes in Iqrit or had built houses in the nearby area of esh-Shafaya. By 1948, the villagers collectively owned around 600 dunams (approximately 600,000 m²) of private land. Much of this area was covered with fig groves that served both the people of Iqrit and neighboring communities....

1939, Iqrit, Palestine

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1939, Iqrit, Palestine  

 

At the time of their eviction in November 1948, Iqrit was home to 491 residents, the majority of whom 432 were Melkite (Greek Catholic) Christians living throughout the village, the remaining 59 Muslim inhabitants either rented homes in Iqrit or had built houses in the nearby area of esh-Shafaya. 

 

By 1948, the villagers collectively owned around 600 dunams (approximately 600,000 m²) of private land. 

 

Much of this area was covered with fig groves that served both the people of Iqrit and neighboring communities. 

 

These groves spread across the hill of al-Bayad, while the remaining cultivated lands were used to grow lentils, tobacco, and various fruit trees. 

 

Iqrit had a private elementary school managed by the Greek Catholic Archdiocese, as well as a large Melkite church that still stands today. 

 

The village was rich in natural water sources, including two springs, numerous wells, and a large pool that collected rainwater. 

 

Several threshing floors lay between the residential area and the cemetery, reflecting the agricultural life that once flourished in Iqrit.

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Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details 

 

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Iqrit/index.html 

 

In November 1948, Iqrit was completely ethnically cleansed... by Zionist troops  

 

Some of the refugees were bused to Lebanon, to al-Rashedyah refugee camp, and the rest were bused al-Rama, 20 km south. 

 

Village Before Nakba

The village was located on a steep hill a few kilometers from the Lebanese border. It overlooked uneven terrain on the east and Wadi al-Bassa (which descended towards the sea) on the west. A secondary road, on which a good number of villages were also located, linked it to the Acre-Ra's al-Naqura coastal highway. Iqrit could be traced back to the Canaanites, who erected a statue on the site representing the god Melqart of Tyre. The Crusaders occupied it and called it Acref. Like other villages in Palestine, Iqrit was devastated by the events of the Crusades. It was subsequently rebuilt, and by 1596 this village in the nahiya of Tibnin (liwa' of Safad) had a population of 374. It paid taxes on goats and beehives and on its press, which was used for processing either olives or grapes. In the late nineteenth century, Iqrit had a population of about 100. The buildings in the village were made of stone and included a modern chapel. Situated on a tell, the village was surrounded by arable land, which the villagers planted with fig and olive trees...  READ MORE  https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Iqrit/index.html

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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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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Palestinian women wearing traditional dresses (thobe), each different design represent different Palestinian villages and cities.

Palestinian women wearing traditional dresses (thobe), each different design represent different Palestinian villages and cities. This photo was taken in 2007 and was selected as the winner of a photo competition - ALECSO

 

Palestine Remembered - Traditional Costumes Map

Palestine Remembered: A picture from inside the house of Hajj Fawaz Hussein Theeb

Kafr al-Dik - Kafr al-Dik: A picture from inside the house of Hajj Fawaz Hussein Theeb

 

 Palestine Remembered

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

Purpose

• Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians on their way to Lebanon, Oct. 1948
  To emphasize that the CORE issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are the DISPOSSESSION and ETHNIC CLEANSING (compulsory population transfer) of the Palestinian people for the past seven decades. Therefore, the conflict is deeply political and not about antisemitism that the Western world have experienced; and it would've been at the same level of intensity even if both parties had been Jewish, Muslim, or Christian.
• To create an easy medium where refugees can communicate, organize, and share their experiences amongst themselves. The refugees are encouraged to attach their stories, memories, pictures, movies, music files, join discussions at the message board and guest book sections, directory service listing of the refugees and their contact information, and URL links related to each listed town.
• 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 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 al-Nakba.
• To preserve the memories and the experiences of the Palestinian people around the world, especially the 726,000 Palestinian refugees who were resolution 194. Based on this resolution, every single refugee has the right to go back to his or her home, and to be compensated for any loss of their property, pain, and suffering.
• Faluja-Gaza, 1949, Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians on their way to Hebron
  To respond to the widely popular Zionist myth that: "Palestine was a country with no people for people with no country", at length we have responded to this myth plus more. With the help of our online community (made up of tens of thousands of refugees), visitors to the site can verify how Palestine has its people who are rich with history, culture, and values.
• To reach out to Israelis so they can feel the human behind this "Palestinian" or "the enemy", who was forced out from his home, farm, and business to make way for persecuted European Jewish refugees. We are proud to be one of the few mediums where Israelis and Palestinians can reach out to each other and meet, of course, other than at the humiliating checkpoints. It should be noted, that the majority of the site's page views come from Israel, and many of the pictures and films that we have of the destroyed villages were shared by Israelis. We understand that many Israelis and Jews around the world support the Palestinian struggle for justice and are willing to do their part in bringing an end to the wrongs of the past.
• To send an unambiguous message to the Westerner World that the Palestinian people cannot be crossed for what they have sinned against their Jewish citizens. Palestine and its people cannot be the saviors for their tortured consciousness and souls for what they have done to the Jews who used to call Europe home. Their blind support of the "Jewish state" and its racist policies is blindly guided by their guilty conscious. Locking Jews, Palestinians, and Arabs into eternal struggle will neither bring peace to the Middle East nor to the whole world. 

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

Ramadan Memories By Mike Odetalla #Palestine #Community #Respect #BeitHanina

Lifta - لفتا: One Of Many From Lifta's Homes Still Stand As A Truth Witness. Palestine Remembered

 Ramadan Memories

By Mike Odetalla

 

The holy month of Ramadan is once again upon us, and its fasting. Muslims will fast from sun-up till sun down, abstaining from food, water, and intimate relationships. 

 

Each year around this time, my memories of Ramadan in our small village of Beit Hanina, a suburb of Jerusalem which was still without electricity, whereby people carried lanterns to light their way in the darkness as they went first to the mosque and from there to visit friends and family: a special part of Ramadan, are once again rekindled. 

 

Beit Hanina had a drummer, charged with the pre-dawn task of awakening the village to sahoor, the light meal whose end marked the beginning of each day’s fast. Closing my eyes and thinking real hard, still brings back the sound of Beit Hanina’s drummer banging away, and the delightful memories of joining the other children, carrying our decorated fanoosia lanterns with candles burning brightly inside them, as we ran along behind the drummer, singing, laughing and shouting to help awaken the sleeping adults and start them on sahoor and their new day. How I admired the drummer; how I wanted his job and to share his fun. 

 

In Ramadan 1979, my first visit back to Palestine since the ’67 expulsion, my cousin and I, both 18 and living in the US, finally became the Ramadan drummers of Beit Hanina. The Israeli invasion of 1967 and the subsequent occupation made the drummers’ job very high risk and today they are scarce: Ramadan drummers were often stopped, even beaten, and some have been killed by the Israeli occupying army. 

 

By 1979, the village had not enjoyed a drummer in 5 years, so my cousin and I delighted in our job of walking through the village each morning banging away on large tin cans. It must have been a very humorous sight: the elderly were happy to hear us; the younger people thought we were a great joke and made fun of the ‘bored Americans’. But everyone agreed that we had renewed some “life” that had been lost as we broke through the dark still nights of Ramadan. For me, however briefly, I was transported back to a happy childhood whose memories had never left me for a moment.

I still remember sitting by the family’s transistor radio with my siblings listening to the special programs as we awaited the “cannon” to go off, signaling that it was time to break our fast. The “cannon” was a World War I era English relic and merely made a loud bang, which was all that it, was good for. 

 

Ever since my children were very small, I had regaled them with the many stories of my childhood in Palestine, enjoying the look of fascination on their faces as they implored me to tell them yet “another story of when you were young in Palestine”… 

 

This past summer, I took my children to visit the grave of my grandmother which is located on a hillside cemetery off of Salah Eddin Street in the Old City. The cemetery is actually located inside the boundaries of the Palestinian village of Lifta which was ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian inhabitants, which included my wife’s family, by the Zionists in 1948. Many people, including my grandmother and her family members are buried there, although now it is considered part of Jerusalem.

As we made our way through the cemetery gates and up the hill so that we could read Al-Fatiha, which is the opening verse of the Quran at her graveside, I noticed a an old rusty cannon sitting on the top of the hill, virtually buried beneath the overgrown weeds. I decided to head up the hill and take a closer look. Much to my surprise, the cannon was an exact copy of the very same cannon that I had remembered as a youth. I called my children up the hill and showed them the cannon, surmising that the cannon was used to alert the residents of Jerusalem when to break their fast before the city fell under Zionist control. 

 

During Ramadan, my mother would always invite friends and relatives to our home to break the fast with us. As Muslims, we are obligated to share breaking our fast with others, especially those less fortunate than us. It is considered a blessing to do so. It is something that we continue to do here in America as we invite friends and loved ones to share in our blessing on this Holy Month, the essence of which are a time of prayer, fasting, and charity. 

 

Some of the best memories that I carry with me are connected to the month of Ramadan in Palestine when I was a child. The closeness and feeling of “community” that I felt during those times is something that is almost beyond description. The sound of the drummer, the Muezzin call to prayer, the static emanating from the transistor radio, the “boom” of the cannon, the enticing aroma of the special foods that we only ate during Ramadan, the sight of families huddled together on a mat covered floor around the evening meals, illuminated by the flickering light of a kerosene lantern, enjoying their meals, as humble as it may have been, in the company of family and loved ones… 

 

These are my memories of Ramadan before the Israeli invasion and subsequent brutal and inhumane occupation which has destroyed many families and communities and is now in the process of causing further havoc as Israel continues to erect its Apartheid Walls, checkpoints, and roadblocks which have reduced many Palestinian villages and cities to nothing more than walled off ghettos and open air prisons. 

 

Unfortunately, these will constitute the next generation of Palestinian children’s memories and experiences… 

 

Mike Odetalla 2003-2105 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED