Palestine: Destroyed Villages (1948)

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I don't blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the boooks not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushu'a in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
[ Moshe Dayan, in Haifa, quoted by Ha'aretz, April, 4 1969. Reproduced by Ed Walid Khalidi in the book "All That Remains - see below]

Most of the data here come from the book All That Remains (Ed. Walid Khalidi, ISBN 0-88728-224-5, published by The Institute for the Palestine Studies.
The map was based on one prepared by Dr Ghazi Falah (appears in black and white in the book appendix).
Also, info is ocasionally taken from The Arabic desk reference: Mu'jam Buldaan Filastiin (Muhammad Shurrab). More sources may be used later on.

Detailed Map of cleansed villages (with color coded index by district) [65 KB]
Destroyed Village by map index
Charts of the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestine. There is little doubt that no room is left! The charts were captured from an ActiveX map by Microsoft on MSNBC in April. Each map is 45-50 KB in size.
- as of 1914
- as of 1948
- as of 1977 (areas occupied in 1967 only)
- as of 1997 (same areas as above)
Picture of a typical village ruins (Al-Zuq al-Fawqani - Safad, in 1987, from W. Khalidi, 42 KB)
(a little graphic): Cleansing graves as well(This skull floats in Balad al-Shaykh, or its ruins, as of 1987. Same sources, 52 Kb)
Village Names sorted by district with English names (Arabic names planned), population (1944/45) and name(s) of Israeli settlements on their ruins.
Note: the No. from Map refers to the map above.
1. Akka (Acre) District (if you have Arabic support with your browser, try this Akka District list - it has the village names in Arabic)
2. Baysan District
3. Gaza (Ghazzah) District
4. Bi'r As-Sab' (Beersheeba) District
5. Haifa District
6. Al-Khalil (Hebron) District
7. Al-Quds (Jerusalem) District
8. Safad District
9. Ar-Ramla District
10. Tabariyya (Tiberias) District
11. An-Naasira (Nazareth) District
12. Tulkarm District
13. Jenin District
14. Yaffa District