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Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during theArab–Israeli conflict.
A number of these villages, those in theJezreel Valley, were inhabited by tenants of land which was sold by a variety of owners, some local and othersabsentee landlord families, such as the Karkabi, Tueini, Farah and Khuri families andSursock family ofLebanon. In some cases land was sold directly by localfellahim (peasant owners).[1] The sale of land to Jewish organizations meant that tenant farmers were displaced.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
List of Palestinian villages from which tenant farmers were uprooted before 1948, with the cause of the uprooting (i.e., sale by landlord or some other cause) given along with the name of Jewish settlements on newly acquired land (in parentheses) can be seen below.
Safed district
Acre district
Tiberias district
Nazareth district
Beisan district
Haifa district
Tulkarm district
Jerusalem district Ramla district
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During the1929 Palestine riots:
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During the1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine:
Palestinian Arab residents were expelled from hundreds of towns and villages by theIsrael Defense Forces, or fled in fear as the Israeli army advanced.[citation needed] Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated.
The main Jewish areas depopulated in 1948 were theJewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and theGush Etzion. Approximately 30–40 km2 of land was owned by Jews in the areas which became the West Bank and Gaza Strip (approximately 6,000 km2); some of this land was uninhabited.[43]
Many of these areas were repopulated after theSix-Day War.
Three Arab villages,Bayt Nuba,Imwas andYalo, located in theLatrun Corridor were destroyed on the orders ofYitzhak Rabin due to the corridor's strategic location and route to Jerusalem and because of the residents' alleged aiding ofEgyptian commandos in their attack on the city ofLod. The residents of the three villages were offered compensation but were not allowed to return.[45]
Hebron/Bethlehem area[46]
Jordan Valley[46]
Jerusalem area[46]
In the Negev/Sinai Desert
Over 100,000Golan Heights residents were evacuated from about 25 villages whether on orders of theSyrian government or through fear of an attack by theIsraeli Defense Forces and expulsion after the ceasefire.[47] During the following months, more than a hundred Syrian villages were destroyed by Israel.[48]
Israeli settlements in theSinai Peninsula were evacuated as a result of the 1979Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
As a part ofIsrael's unilateral disengagement plan, 21 civilianIsraeli settlements were forcibly evacuated, as well as an area in the northern West Bank containing four Israeli villages. The residential buildings were razed by Israel but public structures were left intact. The religious structures not removed by Israel were later destroyed by Palestinians.
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On 5 November 2020,Israeli bulldozers demolished most of the village ofKhirbet Humsa al-Fawqa and forced 73 of its Palestinian residents, including 41 children to leave in what was the largest demolition in years.[54] On 4 February 2021, Israel razed for the second time because of what it claimed was an illegal settlement next to a militaryfiring range.[55] On 7 July 2021, it was demolished by Israel again for at least the third time.[56]
In May 2023, the Israeli army destroyed the village ofEin Samiya, forcibly expelling 170 people.[57]
Zionist efforts to convince the Arab population of Haifa and Zichron Ya'akov to stay were also made, in this case because Arab labour was seen as vital to maintaining the economies of these places.
