This list of Arab towns and villages that were depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus

1948 Palestinian exodus

The 1948 Palestinian exodus , also known as the Nakba , occurred when approximately 711,000 to 725,000 Palestinian Arabs left, fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Civil War that preceded it. The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute...

 gathers about 500 items. Some areas were entirely depopulated and destroyed; others were left with a few hundred residents and were repopulated by Jewish immigrants

Aliyah

Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...

, then renamed

Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area. This can range from the uncontroversial change of a street name to a highly disputed change to the name of a country. Some names are changed locally but the new names are not recognised by other countries,...

. Towns and villages are arranged according to the subdistrict of the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine they were situated in.

District of Acre

District of Acre

The Sanjak of Acre was a prefecture of the Ottoman Empire, located in modern-day northern Israel. The city of Acre was the sanjak's capital.Acre was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I in 1517, but the city fell into disuse soon thereafter...

• 'Amqa, Military assault on settlement, 10–11 July 1948.
• Arab al-Samniyya
  Arab al-Samniyya
  Arab al-Samniyya , also known as Khirbat al-Suwwana, is a depopulated Palestinian village in the Western Galilee that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was located in the Acre District of the British Mandate of Palestine, 19.5 km northeast of the city of Acre...
  
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• al-Bassa
  Al-Bassa
  al-Bassa was a Palestinian Arab village in the British Mandate of Palestine's District of Acre. It was situated close to the Lebanese border, north of the district capital, Akko , and above sea level.-Name:...
  
  , Military assault on settlement, Expulsion by Yishuv forces, 14 May 1948.
• al-Birwa
  Al-Birwa
  Al-Birwa was a Palestinian Arab village, located east of Acre . Mentioned by Arab geographers in the 11th century, it was known to the Crusaders as Broet. Al-Birwa was captured from the Mamluks by the Ottomans in the 16th century. In the 19th century, it had a mosque, a church, and an elementary...
  
  , Military assault on settlement, 11 June 1948 (?)
• al-Damun
  Al-Damun
  Al-Damun was a Palestinian Arab village located from the city of Acre that was depopulated during 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In 1945, the village had 1,310 inhabitants, most of whom were Muslim, while the remainder were Christians...
  
  , Military assault on settlement, July 15–16, 1948.
• Dayr al-Qassi
  Dayr al-Qassi
  Dayr al-Qassi or Deir el-Qasi is a former Palestinian village located 26 km northeast of the city of Acre.-Geography:The village was located 26 km northeast of the city of Acre, on a rocky hill about 5 km south of the Lebanese border. It was linked by a paved road to Fassuta in...
  
  
• al-Ghabisiyya
  Al-Ghabisiyya
  Al-Ghabisiyya was an Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre in present-day Israel. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Forces during the 1948-1950 period and remains deserted.-History:...
  
  
• Iqrit
  Iqrit
  Iqrit was a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometers northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form part of an Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was captured and depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...
  
   - Expulsion by Yishuv forces, early November 1948.
• Iribbin, Khirbat
  Iribbin, Khirbat
  Khirbat Iribbin , or Khurbet 'Arubbin, , is a former Palestinian village in the Upper Galilee, located northeast of the city of Acre...
  
  
• Jiddin, Khirbat
  Jiddin, Khirbat
  Khirbat Jiddin is a former Palestinian village in the Galilee located 16 km northeast from city of Acre. According to a 1945 census the village had a population of approximately 1,500 Arabs...
  
  
• al-Kabri
  Al-Kabri
  Al-Kabri was a Palestinian Arab town in the Galilee located northeast of Acre. It was captured by the Israel Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In 1945, it had a population of 1,520 and a total land area of 28,729 dunams. It is near the site of Tel Kabri.-History:Al-Kabri was known...
  
  , Military assault on settlement, fear, 21 May 1948.
• Kafr Bir'im
  Kafr Bir'im
  Kafr Bir'im, also Kefr Berem , was an Arab Christian village in Palestine located south of the Lebanese border and northwest of Safed. The village was situated above sea level, with a church overlooking it at an elevation of . The church was built on the ruins of an older church destroyed in an...
  
  , Expulsion by Yishuv forces, early November 1948.

• Kafr 'Inan
  Kafr 'Inan
  Kafr ʿInān was a Palestinian village in the District of Acre around east of Acre. Until 1949, it was an Arab village situated upon ancient ruins...
  
   - Expulsion by Yishuv forces, February 1949.
• Kuwaykat
  Kuwaykat
  Kuwaykat was a Druze Palestinian village 9 km northeast of Acre in the British mandate of Palestine District of Acre, depopulated in 1948.-History:...
  
  , Military assault on settlement, 10 July 1948.
• al-Manshiyya
  Al-Manshiyya
  Al-Manshiyya was a Palestinian village with a Muslim orphanage and a mosque known as the mosque of Abu 'Atiyya, which is still standing. The village was close to the shrine of Baha'u'llah, who was the founder of the Baha'i Faith, which is also still standing....
  
  , Military assault on settlement, 14 May 1948.
• al-Mansura
  Al-Mansura, Acre
  al-Mansura was a Palestinian village that was captured by the Israel Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-External links:** from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center*, from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh...
  
  , Expulsion by Yishuv forces, early November
• Mi'ar
  Mi'ar
  Mi'ar was a Palestinian village located 17.5 kilometers east of Acre, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:...
  
  
• al-Nabi Rubin
• al-Nahr
  Al-Nahr
  al-Nahr was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defence Force's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault the village of al-Nahr was razed.-History:The twin...
  
  , Military assault on settlement, 21 May 1948.
• al-Ruways
  Al-Ruways
  al-Ruways was a Palestinian Arab village of 330 on a rocky hill located southeast of Acre and south of al-Damun.-History:Al-Ruways stood on the site of the Crusader town of Careblier. In 1266, a Crusader vanguard returning from a raid in Tiberias to Acre was ambushed by Mamluk forces based in...
  
  
• Sha'ab
• Suhmata
  Suhmata
  Suhmata was a Palestinian village, located northeast of Acre. It was depopulated by the Golani Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
   - Military assault on settlement, 30 October 1948.
• al-Sumayriyya
  Al-Sumayriyya
  Al-Sumayriyya was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:Al-Sumayriyya is Arabic for "The Little Samaria"...
  
   Military assault on settlement, 14 May 1948.

• Suruh
  Suruh
  Suruh was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located northeast of Acre.-History:Suruh contained two khirbats with a variety of ancient artifacts, including cisterns, and rock-hewn tombs....
  
   - Expulsion by Yishuv forces, early November 1948.
• al-Tall (Tell), Military assault on settlement, 21 May 1948.
• Tarbikha
  Tarbikha
  Tarbikha is a former Palestinian village. It was located 27 km northeast of Acre in the British Mandate District of Acre that was captured and depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
   - Expulsion by Yishuv forces, early November 1948.
• Umm al-Faraj
  Umm al-Faraj
  -Location:The village was situated on a flat spot in the Acre plain, northeast of Acre.-History:The village was known to the Crusaders as Le Fierge....
  
  , Military assault on settlement, 21 May 1948.
• al-Zeeb
  Al-Zeeb
  Az-Zeeb or al-Zib was a Palestinian Arab village located north of Acre on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Mentioned in the Bible by its ancient name Achzib, evidence of human settlement at the site dates back to the 18th century BCE. By the 10th century BCE, it was a propersous and fortified...
  
   (Zib), Military assault on settlement, 14 May 1948.
• Suhmata
  Suhmata
  Suhmata was a Palestinian village, located northeast of Acre. It was depopulated by the Golani Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
  
• al-Sumayriyya
  Al-Sumayriyya
  Al-Sumayriyya was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:Al-Sumayriyya is Arabic for "The Little Samaria"...
  
  
• Suruh
  Suruh
  Suruh was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located northeast of Acre.-History:Suruh contained two khirbats with a variety of ancient artifacts, including cisterns, and rock-hewn tombs....
  
  
• al-Tall (Tell), military assault, May 21
• Tarbikha
  Tarbikha
  Tarbikha is a former Palestinian village. It was located 27 km northeast of Acre in the British Mandate District of Acre that was captured and depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
  
• Umm al-Faraj
  Umm al-Faraj
  -Location:The village was situated on a flat spot in the Acre plain, northeast of Acre.-History:The village was known to the Crusaders as Le Fierge....
  
  , military assault, May 21
• al-Zeeb
  Al-Zeeb
  Az-Zeeb or al-Zib was a Palestinian Arab village located north of Acre on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Mentioned in the Bible by its ancient name Achzib, evidence of human settlement at the site dates back to the 18th century BCE. By the 10th century BCE, it was a propersous and fortified...
  
   (Zib), military assault, May 14

District of Baysan

District of Baysan

The District of Baysan was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Baysan. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• Arab al-'Arida
  Arab al-'Arida
  Arab al-'Arida is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab village and south of the city of Baysan . It is the site of the modern kibbutz Sde Eliyahu.-History:It stood on the Tell al-Ru'yan and Tell al-Qurud sites....
  
  
• Arab al-Bawati
  Arab al-Bawati
  Arab al-Bawati was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.It was located 4 kilometres north east of Baysan in the Baysan valley. The village was completely destroyed on May 16, 1948. According to a Palestinian historian, Walid...
  
  
• Arab al-Safa
  Arab al-Safa
  Arab al-Safa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan . It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 7.5 km south of Baysan....
  
  
• al-Ashrafiyya
  Al-Ashrafiyya
  Al-Ashrafiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 4.5 km southwest of Baysan.The village was depopulated on May 12, 1948 during Operation Gideon...
  
  
• Al-Bira, Baysan
  Al-Bira, Baysan
  Al-Bira is a depopulated former Palestinian village located7.5 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade.-History:...
  
  
• Danna
  Danna
  Danna was a Palestinian village 13 kilometres north of Baysan that was captured by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
  
• Farwana
  Farwana
  Farwana was a Palestinian village, located south of Bisan, depopulated in 1948.-History:Identified with the ancient city of Rehov, extant during Egyptian rule over Canaan in the second millennium BCE, archaeological sites located on the former village's lands include Tell es-Sarem Farwana was...
  
  
• al-Fatur
  Al-Fatur
  Al-Fatur was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948. It was located 11.5 km south of Baysan....
  
  
• al-Ghazzawiyya
  Al-Ghazzawiyya
  Al-Ghazzawiyya was a former Palestinian village located 2 kilometers east of the city of Bet Shean . In 1945, the population was 1,640, 1,020 Arab and 620 Jewish.-History:...
  
  
• al-Hamidiyya
  Al-Hamidiyya
  Al-Hamidiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948. It was located five kilometres north of Baysan. It was attacked as part of Operation Gideon...
  
  

• Al-Hamra, Baysan
  Al-Hamra, Baysan
  Al-Hamra, Baysan was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was located 7.5 kilometres south of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village was named after the Bedouin tribe who settled in the village lands centuries ago....
  
  
• Jabbul
  Jabbul
  Jabbul is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab village located7 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade.- Location :...
  
  
• Kafra
  Kafra
  Kafra was a Palestinian Arab village located 10.5 kilometres north of Baysan. Built along both sides of the Wadi Kafra, the village had been known by this name since at least the time of the Crusades. The population of the village in 1922 was 273, rising to an estimated 499 in 1948...
  
  
• Kawkab al-Hawa
  Kawkab al-Hawa
  Kawkab al-Hawa is a depopulated former Palestinian village located11 km north of Baysan. Kawkab al-Hawa contained the Crusader fortress of Belvoir. The Crusader names for the Frankish settlement at Kuwaykat were Beauvoir, Belvoir, Bellum videre, Coquet, Cuschet and Coket...
  
  
• al-Khunayzir
  Al-Khunayzir
  Al-Khunayzir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, on May 20, 1948. It was attacked as part of Operation Gideon....
  
  
• Masil al-Jizl
  Masil al-Jizl
  Masil al-Jizl was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the Arab-Israeli War. It was attacked on May 31, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. In 1931 it had a population of 197, by 1948 this had declined to 116. 47 houses were...
  
  
• al-Murassas
  Al-Murassas
  Al-Murassas was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948...
  
  
• Qumya
  Qumya
  Qumya was a Palestinian village of 510 inhabitants when it was depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.Located 12.5 kilometers north of Baysan, the village was assaulted by the forces of the Golani Brigade on 26 March 1948 during Operation Gideon, on the orders of Yosef Weitz, a...
  
  
• al-Sakhina
  Al-Sakhina
  Al-Sakhina was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was located five kilometres west of Baysan on the Jalud River on its way to the Jordan River...
  
  
• al-Samiriyya
  Al-Samiriyya
  Al-Samiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 27, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. It was located 7 km southeast of Baysan....
  
  

• Sirin, Arab evacuation order, April-May 1948.
• Tall al-Shawk
  Tall al-Shawk
  Tall al-Shawk was a Palestinian village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. It was located five km west of Baysan between the al-Januna'in River to the...
  
  
• al-Taqa, Khirbat
  Al-Taqa, Khirbat
  Al-Taqa, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948 under Operation Gideon. It was located 14 km north of Baysan nearby Wadi al-Bira which powered several mills in the...
  
  
• al-Tira
• Umm 'Ajra
  Umm 'Ajra
  Umm 'Ajra was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 31, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. It was located 4 km south of Baysan and the 'Ayn Umm 'Ajra provided the village with water...
  
  
• Umm Sabuna, Khirbat
  Umm Sabuna, Khirbat
  Umm Sabuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Baysan and the 'Ayn Umm-Sabuna provided the village with...
  
  
• Yubla
  Yubla
  Yubla was a Palestinian village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-Location:...
  
  
• Zab'a
  Zab'a
  Zab'a was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon...
  
  
• al-Zawiya, Khirbat
  Al-Zawiya, Khirbat
  Al-Zawiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15–18, 1948 under Operation Gideon. It was located 11.5 km northeast of Baysan. The Crusader Castle Belvoir is located close to the...
  
  

District of Beersheba

District of Beersheba

The District of Beersheba was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Beersheba. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• Beersheba
  Beersheba
  Beersheba is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the seventh-largest city in Israel with a population of 194,300....
  
  , military assault, expulsions, October 20
• al-Imara
  Al-Imara
  al-Imara was a Palestinian village, located in the northern Naqab Desert northwest of Beersheba.-History:In the British mandate period the village was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.-1948 War and aftermath:...
  
  
• al-Jammama
  Al-Jammama
  Al-Jammama is a former Palestinian village located in the Negev Desert 30 km west of the city of Beersheba.-History:The village was an archeological site, containing cisterns, an olive press, mosaic floors, tombs, the crown of a stone column, and stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic period...
  
  
• al-Khalasa
  Al-Khalasa
  Al-Khalasa was a Palestinian village, located 23 kilometers southwest of the city of Beersheba. The village was originally founded by the Nabateans under the name of "al-Khalus", and then "Elusa" under the Byzantines where it served an administrative center in the Negev Desert...
  
  

District of Gaza

District of Gaza

The District of Gaza was an administrative district, situated in the southern Mediterranean coastline of the British Mandate of Palestine. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated, with Israel controlling the northern and eastern portions while Egypt held control of the southern...

• Arab Suqrir
  Arab Suqrir
  Arab Suqrir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza in a flat area with an elevation of along the coastal plain just north of Isdud. The total land area of the village was 40,224 dunams, of which 12,270 was Arab-owned, while the remainder was public...
  
  
• Barbara
  Barbara, Gaza
  Barbara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza located 17 km northeast of Gaza City, in the vicinity of modern Ashkelon. It had an entirely Arab population of 2,410 in 1945 . The village consisted of nearly 14,000 dunums of which approximately 12,700 dunums was able to be...
  
  
• Barqa
• al-Batani al-Gharbi
  Al-Batani al-Gharbi
  Al-Batani al-Gharbi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 13, 1948 by the Giv'ati Brigade under Operation Barak. It was located 36 km northeast of Gaza....
  
  
• al-Batani al-Sharqi
  Al-Batani al-Sharqi
  Al-Batani al-Sharqi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza situated in the flat terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine. It had a population of 650 in 1945...
  
  
• Beit Daras
  Beit Daras
  Bayt Daras was a Palestinian Arab town located on the Lachish River, northeast of Gaza and approximately above sea level, which was depopulated in 1948.-History:...
  
  
• Bayt 'Affa
  Bayt 'Affa
  Bayt 'Affa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 10, 1948 as part of Operation Barak. It was located 29 km northeast of Gaza and Wadi al-Rana ran east of the village.The village had a...
  
  
• Bayt Jirja
  Bayt Jirja
  Bayt Jirja was a Palestinian Arab village 15.5 km Northeast of Gaza. In 1931 the village consisted of 115 houses. It was overrun by Israeli forces during operation Yo'av in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...
  
  
• Bayt Tima
  Bayt Tima
  Bayt Tima was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza and some from the coastline. It was situated in flat terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine. Bayt Tima was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
  
  
• Bil'in
  Bil'in, Gaza
  Bil'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated by the Israel Defence Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948 under Operation An-Far. It was located 39 km northeast of Gaza and the village contained two wells which supplied it with drinking...
  
  
• Burayr
  Burayr
  Burayr was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, northeast of Gaza City. Its population in 1945 was 2,740 and it was depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It had an average elevation of .-History:...
  
  
• Dayr Sunayd
  Dayr Sunayd
  Dayr Sunayd was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza located northeast of Gaza. Situated at an elevation of along the southern coastal plain of Palestine, Deir Sunayd had a total land area of 6,081 dunams...
  
  
• Dimra
  Dimra
  Dimra was a small Palestinian Arab village located northeast of Gaza City. Ancient remains at the site attest to longtime settlement there. During the era of Mamluk rule in Palestine, the town was the home of the Bani Jabir tribe...
  
  
• al-Faluja
  Al-Faluja
  al-Faluja was an Arab village in the British Mandate of Palestine, located 30 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. The village and the neighbouring village of Iraq al-Manshiyya formed part of the Faluja pocket, where 4,000 Egyptian troops were besieged for four months by the newly established Israel...
  
  
• Hamama
  Hamama
  Hamama was a Palestinian Arab town of over 5,000 inhabitants that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 24 kilometers north of Gaza, between Ashkelon and Ashdod.- History :...
  
  

• Hatta
  Hatta (abandoned Arab village)
  Hatta was a Palestinian village of 1,125 inhabitants that was depopulated after a July 17, 1948 assault by Israeli forces of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The Jewish localities of Revaha, Zavdiel and Aluma are currently located on the former village's lands.-Location:The...
  
  
• Hiribya
  Hiribya
  Hirbiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza along the southern coastal plain of Palestine. In 1945, it had a population of 2,300 inhabitants, of which 2,240 were Arabs and 60 were Jews.-History:...
  
  
• Huj
  Huj
  Huj was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of Gaza City. Identified as the site of the ancient Philistine town of Oga, the modern village was founded by the Ottomans in the early 19th century....
  
  
• Hulayqat
  Hulayqat
  Hulayqat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 under Operation Barak. It was located 20.5 km northeast of Gaza.The population in 1945 was 420...
  
  
• Ibdis
  Ibdis
  Ibdis was a Palestinian village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza City. It was situated on flat ground on the coastal plain at an elevation of above sea level, and bordered by a wadi that bore its name on its eastern side...
  
  
• Iraq al-Manshiyya
  Iraq al-Manshiyya
  Iraq al-Manshiyya is a former Palestinian town located 32 km northeast of Gaza City. Its total land area consisted of 13,838 dunams. According to the British Mandate, the town had a population of 2,010 Arabs and 210 Jews in 1945...
  
  
• Iraq Suwaydan
• Isdud
• al-Jaladiyya
  Al-Jaladiyya
  Al-Jaladiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948 by the Giv'ati Brigade. It was located 34 kilometres northeast of Gaza.The Crusades built a castle in the village...
  
  
• al-Jiyya
  Al-Jiyya
  al-Jiyya was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Located 19 kilometers northeast of Gaza City, according to a 1945 census, the village had a population of 1,230...
  
  
• Julis
• al-Jura
  Al-Jura
  Al-Jura was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located approximately two kilometers west of Majdal . In 1945, the village had a population of approximately 2,420 mostly Muslim inhabitants...
  
  
• Jusayr
  Jusayr
  Jusayr was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948 under Operation Barak or Operation Yo'av. It was located 35 km northeast of Gaza....
  
  
• Karatiyya
  Karatiyya
  Karatiyya was a Palestinian Arab village of 1,370, located northeast of Gaza, situated in a flat area with an elevation of along the coastal plain of Palestine and crossed by Wadi al-Mufrid.-History:...
  
  
• Kawfakha
  Kawfakha
  Kawfakha was a Palestinian village located east of Gaza that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-Location:The village stood on a stretch of sandy, rolling land in the northern Negev...
  
  

• Kawkaba
  Kawkaba
  Kawkaba , known to the Crusaders as Coquebel, was an Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during Operation Yoav during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and depopulated.-Location:...
  
  
• al-Khisas
• al-Majdal
  Ashkelon
  Ashkelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age...
  
  
• al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
  Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
  Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira was a Palestinian village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza. With a land area of 20,687 dunams, the village site was situated on an elevation of along the coastal plain. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
  
  
• al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
  Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
  Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza. Established in the 19th century, it was situated at an elevation of in the southern coastal plain of Ottoman Syria...
  
  
• al-Muharraqa
  Al-Muharraqa
  Al-Muharraqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located east of Gaza City. The village laid on rolling terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine, on a bend in the wadi. It had an elevation of and a total land area of 4,855 dunams, most of which was public property,...
  
  
• Najd
• Ni'ilya
  Ni'ilya
  Ni'ilya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on November 4, 1948 under Operation Yo'av. It was located 19 km northeast of Gaza in the city territory of modern Ashkelon...
  
  
• Qastina
  Qastina
  Qastina was a Palestinian village, located 38 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-Location:...
  
  
• al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
  Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
  Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 18, 1948 during the second stage of Operation Barak. It was located 30 km northeast of Gaza....
  
  
• al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
  Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
  Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza situated along the southern coastal plain of Palestine above sea level. It had a population of 680 in 1945...
  
  
• al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
  Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
  Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 18, 1948 as part of the second stage of Operation Barak. The village was located 32 km northeast of Gaza....
  
  
• Simsim
• Summil
  Summil
  Summil was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza, located northeast of Gaza. It was situated on a sandy hill in the coastal plain and had a population of 950 in 1945. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:...
  
  
• Tall al-Turmus
  Tall al-Turmus
  Tall al-Turmus was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Gaza located on a low hill on the coastal plain of Palestine, northeast of Gaza. In 1945, it had a population of 760 and a land area of 11,508 dunams. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:According...
  
  
• Yasur

District of Haifa

District of Haifa

The District of Haifa was an administrative district of the British Mandate of Palestine that covered the northern Mediterranean coast of regional Palestine, southwestern Galilee, and the Wadi Ara region. It was disintegrated after the British withdrawal from the area. Prior to and during the 1948...

• Abu Shusha (Haifa District)
• Abu Zurayq
  Abu Zurayq
  Abu Zurayq was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa, situated near Wadi Abu Zurayq. It was depopulated on April 12-13 during and after the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine....
  
  
• Arab al-Fuqara
  Arab al-Fuqara
  Arab al-Fuqara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948...
  
  
• Arab al-Nufay'at
  Arab al-Nufay'at
  Arab al-Nufay'at was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948...
  
  
• Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
  Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
  Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. It was located 40 km south of Haifa.-History:...
  
  
• Ayn Ghazal
  Ayn Ghazal
  Ayn Ghazal was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Haifa. Depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a result of an Israeli military assault during Operation Shoter, the village was then completely destroyed. Incorporated into the State of Israel, it is now mostly a forested area...
  
  
• Balad al-Shaykh
• Barrat Qisarya
  Barrat Qisarya
  Barrat Qisarya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. Today traces of walls, glass, marble fragments, and pottery fragments in the sand dunes are visible. It was located 32 km southwest of Haifa.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Beisan (Beit She'an)
• Burayka
  Burayka
  Burayka was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 5, 1948...
  
  
• al-Burj, Khirbat
  Al-Burj, Khirbat
  Al-Burj was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on February 15, 1948. It was located 34.5 km south of Haifa...
  
  
• al-Butaymat
  Al-Butaymat
  Al-Butaymat was a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of Haifa. In 1945, the village had a population of 110. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under the Battle for Mishmar Ha'emek....
  
  
• Daliyat al-Rawha'
  Daliyat al-Rawha'
  Daliyat al-Rawha' was a Palestinian village located southeast of Haifa. It was the site of the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the forces of the Mamluks and the Crusaders in the 13th century. A small village of 60 Arab Muslims in the late 19th century, the Jewish colony of Dalia was...
  
  
• al-Dumun, Khirbat
  Al-Dumun, Khirbat
  Al-Dumun was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948. It was located 10.5 km southeast of Haifa....
  
  
• Ain Hawd
• al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
  Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
  Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948 during the Battle of Mishmar ha-'Emeq.It was located 28 km southeast of Haifa....
  
  
• al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
  Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
  Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 8, 1948 under the Battle for Mishmar Ha'emek. It was located 28 km southeast of Haifa....
  
  
• Haifa
  Haifa
  Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
  
  
• Hawsha
  Hawsha
  Hawsha was a Palestinian village located east of Haifa, about above sea level. It contained a maqam for Nabi Hushan, and a number of ancient ruins, including rock-cut tombs, and a mosaic floor....
  
  

• Ijzim
  Ijzim
  Ijzim was a Palestinian village located in the Haifa district of British Mandate Palestine, 19.5 kilometers south of the city, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...
  
  
• Jaba'
  Jaba'
  Jaba' was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 24, 1948 as part of Operation Shoter. It was located 18.5 km south of Haifa....
  
  
• al-Jalama
• Kabara
  Kabara, Haifa
  Kabara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948. It was located 30 km southeast of Haifa....
  
  
• al-Kafrayn
  Al-Kafrayn
  Al-Kafrayn was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 12, 1948 as part of the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq. It was located 29.5 km southeast of Haifa. The Crusaders referred to al-Kafrayn as...
  
  
• Kafr Lam
  Kafr Lam
  Kafr Lam was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. The name of the village was shared with that of an Islamic fort constructed there early on in the period of Arab Caliphate rule in Palestine...
  
  
• al-Kasayir, Khirbat
  Al-Kasayir, Khirbat
  Al-Kasayir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948 under the Battle for Mishmar Ha'emek. It was located 13 km east of Haifa....
  
  
• Khubbayza
  Khubbayza
  Khubbayza was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa, located southeast of Haifa. It was situated on hilly terrain, south of Wadi al-Sindiyana, between the Jezreel Valley with the Mediterranean coast. In 1945, it had a population of 290...
  
  
• Lid, Khirbat
  Lid, Khirbat
  Lid was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 9, 1948. It was located 32 km southeast of Haifa....
  
  
• al-Manara, Khirbat
  Al-Manara, Khirbat
  Al-Manara, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948. It was located 19 km south of Haifa.In 1931 it had 442 houses....
  
  
• al-Mansi
  Al-Mansi
  Al-Mansi and also called was a Palestinian town in the District of Haifa. It was occupied on April 12, 1948 by Israeli troops during the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.-Geography:...
  
  
• al-Mansura, Khirbat
  Al-Mansura, Khirbat
  Al-Mansura, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 28, 1948. It was located 18.5 km southeast of Haifa. Khirbat al-Mansura contained the ruins of building foundations and rock-cut...
  
  
• al-Mazar
  Al-Mazar
  Al-Mazar was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of al-Sarafand. As of 1945, it had a population of 210.-History:The village name, which is Arabic for "shrine", "a place one visits", was probably meant to commemorate the many people who were killed and buried there in the wars against the...
  
  
• al-Naghnaghiyya
• Qannir
  Qannir
  Qannir was a Palestinian village, located 35 kilometers south of Haifa. With 750 inhabitants in 1945, it was depopulated in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
  
• Qira
• Qisarya
  Qisarya
  The village of Qisarya was located south of Haifa.-History:After the Muslim conquest, during the Mamluk area, the ruins of Caesarea Maritima by the Crusader fortress near Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast was uninhabited. First in 1664 a settlement is mentioned. It consisted of 100...
  
  
• Qumbaza

• al-Rihaniyya
  Al-Rihaniyya
  Al-Rihaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 as part of the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq. It was located 25 km southeast of Haifa and 3 km northwest of Wadi al-Mileh.In 1945...
  
  
• Sabbarin
  Sabbarin
  Sabbarin is a former Palestinian Arab village located 28 kilometers south of Haifa. According to the 1931 census of Palestine, the village had a population of 1,108 inhabitants and the village's lands spanned 25,307 dunams.-History:...
  
  
• al-Sarafand
  Al-Sarafand
  Al-Sarafand was an Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596...
  
  
• al-Sarkas, Khirbat
• Sa'sa', Khirbat
  Khirbat Sa'sa'
  Khirbat Sa'sa' was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 28, 1948. It was located 15 km east of Haifa....
  
  
• al-Sawamir
• al-Shuna, Khirbat
  Khirbat al-Shuna
  Khirbat al-Shuna or Khirbat ash Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 15, 1948. It was located 32.5 km south of Haifa....
  
  
• al-Sindiyana
  Al-Sindiyana
  Al-Sindiyana was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948. It was located 29 km south of Haifa.V. Guérin visited the village in the 19th century...
  
  
• al-Tantura
  Al-Tantura
  Tantura was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. It was built on the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor.-Antiquity:...
  
  
• al-Tira
  Al-Tira (Haifa)
  al-Tira was a Palestinian town located 7 kilometres south of Haifa.It was made up of five khirbets, including Khirbat al-Dayr where lie the ruins of St. Brocardus monastery and a cave complex with vaulted tunnels.-History:...
  
  
• Tiberias
• Umm al-Shawf
  Umm al-Shawf
  Umm al-Shawf or Umm ash Shauf was a Palestinian Arab village located 29.5 km south of Haifa, on the sloping section of Wadi al-Marah. It was depopulated as a result of a military assault between May 12-14, just prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-Bibliography:*Conder, Claude...
  
  
• Umm al-Zinat
  Umm al-Zinat
  Umm az Zinat or Umm al-Zinat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 15, 1948 by Golani Brigade's Fourth Battalion...
  
  
• Wa'arat al-Sarris
  Wa'arat al-Sarris
  Wa'arat al-Sarris was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 16, 1948 under Operation Bi'ur Chametz. The village was located 11 km east of Haifa....
  
  
• Wadi Ara (village)
  Wadi Ara (village)
  Wadi Ara is a former Palestinian Arab village located 38.5 km south of the city of Haifa. It is named after the nearby stream that is known in Arabic as Wadi 'Ara. The village was particularly small with a population of 230 and a land area of approximately 9,800 dunums.-History:The...
  
  
• Yajur, Haifa
  Yajur, Haifa
  Yajur was a Palestinian Arab village located 9.5 km southeast of Haifa.Yajur was mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders during the hudna between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan al-Mansur declared in 1283....
  
  

District of Hebron

District of Hebron

The District of Hebron was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Hebron. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• Ajjur
  Ajjur
  Ajjur was a Palestinian Arab village of over 3,700 inhabitants located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron. It was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, during which all of its inhabitants fled or were expelled...
  
  
• Barqusya
  Barqusya
  Barqusya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Hebron. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 9, 1948 under Operation An-Far. It was located 31 km northwest of Hebron....
  
  
• Bayt Jibrin
  Bayt Jibrin
  Bayt Jibrin was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Hebron. The village had a total land area of 56,185 dunams or , of which were built-up while the rest remained farmland.The early inhabitants of Bayt Jibrin are the Canaanites...
  
  
• Bayt Nattif
  Bayt Nattif
  Bayt Nattif was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Hebron. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948 under Operation ha-Har. It was located 21 km northwest of Hebron....
  
  
• al-Dawayima
  Al-Dawayima
  Al-Dawayima was a Palestinian town, located northwest of the city of Hebron. It is identified with the Old Testament town of Bosqat. According to a 1945 census, the town's population was 3,710, and the village lands comprised a total land area of 60,585 dunums of which nearly half was cultivable...
  
  , massacre
• Dayr al-Dubban

• Dayr Nakhkhas
  Dayr Nakhkhas
  Dayr Nakhkhas was a Palestinian Arab village located 20 km northwest of Hebron, overlooking Wadi Bayt Jibrin to the north.-Location:Dayr Nakkhas was situated on the road to Hebron about two miles east of Bayt Jibrin. Perched on a hill, an open corn valley lay below the village...
  
  
• Kudna
  Kudna
  Kudna was a Palestinian Arab village, located 25 kilometers northwest of Hebron.-History:Kudna was known to the Crusaders as Kidna. An archaeological site in Kudna contained remnants of a fort, the foundations of buildings, previously inhabited caves, and cisterns...
  
  
• Mughallis
  Mughallis
  Mughallis was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of Hebron. In 1945, it had a population of 540. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War between July 9-10, 1948 as part of Operation An-Far.-External links:*...
  
  
• al-Qubayba
  Al-Qubayba
  al-Qubayba was a Palestinian village, located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron.-History:Known in Crusader times as Deirelcobebe, the ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish lay adjacent to the village, which was subject to extensive archaeological excavations by the British Mandatory...
  
  
• Ra'na
  Ra'na
  Ra'na was a village located approximately 26 km northwest of Hebron. It was occupied by Israeli occupying forces during Operation Yo'av in October 1948...
  
  

• Tall al-Safi
• Umm Burj, Khirbat
  Umm Burj, Khirbat
  Umm Burj, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Hebron. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 28, 1948 during the Third stage of Operation Yo'av under the command of Yigal Allon. It was located 31 km northwest of Hebron.In 1945 it had a population...
  
  
• az-Zakariyya
  Az-Zakariyya
  Az-Zakariyya or Zakaria was a Palestinian Arab village 25 km northwest from the city of Hebron in the District of Hebron, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village had a population of 1,180 on 15,320 dunums in 1945...
  
  
• Zayta
  Zayta
  Zayta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Hebron in Mandate Palestine. During Crusader rule in Palestine, the village is mentioned as forming part of the landholdings of the Order of St. John. At the time of the rule of the Ottoman Empire, according to the 1596 census, Zayta had a...
  
  
• Zikrin
  Zikrin
  Zikrin was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Hebron, depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War.-History:The village was called Kefar Dikrina in Roman times....
  
  

District of Jaffa

District of Jaffa

The District of Jaffa was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Jaffa. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• al-'Abbasiyya
  Al-'Abbasiyya
  Al-'Abbasiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was attacked under Operation Hametz during the 1948 Palestine War, and finally depopulated under Operation Dani. It was located 13 km east of Jaffa...
  
  
• Abu Kishk
  Abu Kishk
  Abu Kishk was a bedouin village in the District of Jaffa located 12 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 2 km northwest of the Yarkon River...
  
  
• Bayt Dajan
  Bayt Dajan
  Bayt Dajan was a Palestinian Arab village situated approximately southeast of Jaffa. It is thought to have been the site of the biblical town of Beth Dagon, mentioned in the Book of Joshua and in ancient Assyrian and Egyptian texts....
  
  
• Biyar 'Adas
  Biyar 'Adas
  Biyar 'Adas is a former Palestinian Arab village located 19 km northeast of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo. In 1945 the village had a population of 300 and a total land area of 5,492 dunums.-History:...
  
  
• Fajja
  Fajja
  Fajja is a former Palestinian Arab town located 15 kilometers northwest of Jaffa.-History:In the late 19th century, Fajja was described as a small village built of adobe bricks....
  
  
• al-Haram
• Ijlil al-Qibliyya
  Ijlil al-Qibliyya
  Ijlil al-Qibliyya, also al-Jalil, was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 3, 1948. It was located northeast of Jaffa....
  
  
• Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
  Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
  Ijlil al-Shamaliyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 3, 1948. It was located 15 km northeast of Jaffa.In 1945 the village had a population of 190....
  
  

• al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
  Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
  Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 17, 1948. It was located 6.5 km northeast of Jaffa. As of 1945 it had a population of 1,080. al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to...
  
  
• al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
  Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
  Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on March 17, 1948. It was located 9 km northeast of Jaffa. As of 1945 it had a total population of 730. al-Jammasin inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads...
  
  
• Jarisha
  Jarisha
  Jarisha was a Palestinian Arab village located from the ancient site of Tell Jarisha , on the south bank of Al-Awja . After the establishment of Tel Aviv, it was one of five Arab villages to fall within its municipal boundaries...
  
  
• Kafr 'Ana
  Kafr 'Ana
  Kafr 'Ana was a Palestinian town located east of Jaffa. In 1945, the town had an estimated population of 2,800 Arabs and 220 Jews. Captured by the pre-state Israeli forces of the Alexandroni Brigade prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, it was depopulated.-History:The Canaanites...
  
  
• al-Khayriyya
  Al-Khayriyya
  Al-Khayriyya was a Palestinian village located 7.5 kilometers east of Jaffa. Its inhabitants fled as a result of a military assault by the Alexandroni Brigade of the pre-state Israeli forces in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
  
• al-Mas'udiyya
  Al-Mas'udiyya
  Al-Mas'udiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village was previously known...
  
  
• al-Mirr
  Al-Mirr
  Al-Mirr, also named Mahmudiyeh , was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa, which was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on February 1, 1948.-Location:...
  
  
• al-Muwaylih
  Al-Muwaylih
  Al-Muwaylih was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.-External links:** from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center* from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh...
  
  

• Rantiya
  Rantiya
  Rantiya was a Palestinian village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, it had a population of approximately 600 inhabitants....
  
  
• al-Safiriyya
  Al-Safiriyya
  Al-Safiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 War on May 20, 1948. It was located 11 km east of Jaffa. al-Safiriyya was known to the Byzantines and Crusaders as Sapharea or Saphyria.In 1945 it had a population of...
  
  
• Salama
  Salama (town)
  Salama was a Palestinian Arab village, located five kilometers east of Jaffa, that was depopulated in the lead up the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The town was named for Salama Abu Hashim, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
  
  
• Saqiya
  Saqiya
  Saqiya was a village in Palestine away from Jaffa, depopulated in 1948.-Location:The village was located east of Jaffa, above sea level, on uneven land in the central coastal plain...
  
  
• al-Sawalima
  Al-Sawalima
  Al-Sawalima was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 30, 1948. It was located 11 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 2 km north of the al-'Awja River....
  
  
• al-Shaykh Muwannis
  Al-Shaykh Muwannis
  Al-Shaykh Muwannis was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa in British Mandate Palestine located approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of Jaffa city in territory earmarked for Jewish statehood under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.The village had...
  
  
• Yazur
  Yazur
  Yazur was an Arab town located east of Jaffa. Mentioned in 7th century BCE Assyrian texts, the village was a site of contestation between Muslims and Crusaders in the 12th century....
  
  

District of Jerusalem

District of Jerusalem

The District of Jerusalem was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Jerusalem. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district was integrated into the Jerusalem District....

• Allar
  Allar, Jerusalem
  Allar was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem in the Wadi Sarar . The name was shared by the twin villages of 'Allar al-Sifla and 'Allar el-Fawqa , with official imperial ledgers often listing them both under the single entry of Allar.Habitation in the...
  
  
• Aqqur
  Aqqur
  Aqqur was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 13, 1948 under Operation Dani. It was located 14.5 km west of Jerusalem on the Wadi Isma'il, a tributary of the Wadi al-Sarar....
  
  
• Artuf
  Artuf
  Artuf was a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem foothills depopulated in 1948. It was situated west of Jerusalem on a high plateau, surrounded by plains on the south, east, and west...
  
  
• Bayt 'Itab
  Bayt 'Itab
  Bayt ʿIṭāb was a Palestinian village located in the District of Jerusalem. The village was captured, depopulated of its residents, and demolished by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-Overview:...
  
  
• Bayt Mahsir
  Bayt Mahsir
  Bayt Mahsir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation Makkabi. It was located 9 km west of Jerusalem....
  
  
• Bayt Naqquba
  Bayt Naqquba
  Bayt Naqquba was a Palestinian village in British Mandate Palestine, located 9.5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, near Abu Ghosh. Before Palmach and Haganah troops occupied the village during Operation Nachshon on April 1, 1948 approximately 300 Palestinian Arabs lived there...
  
  
• Bayt Thul
  Bayt Thul
  Bayt Thul was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 15.5 km west of Jerusalem....
  
  
• Bayt Umm al-Mays
  Bayt Umm al-Mays
  Bayt Umm al-Mays was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 14 km west of Jerusalem....
  
  
• al-Burayj
  Al-Burayj
  Al-Burayj was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948 during the first phase of Operation ha-Har.It was located 28.5 km west of Jerusalem....
  
  
• Dayr Aban
  Dayr Aban
  Dayr Aban was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948. It was located 21 km west of Jerusalem. The Romans referred to place as Abenezer....
  
  
• Dayr 'Amr
  Dayr 'Amr
  Dayr 'Amr was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948 by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade, during the second stage of Operation Dan. It was located 12.5 km west of Jerusalem...
  
  
• Dayr al-Hawa
  Dayr al-Hawa
  Dayr al-Hawa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948 by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem...
  
  
• Dayr Rafat
  Dayr Rafat
  Dayr Rafat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 18, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade, during the second stage of Operation Dani...
  
  

• Dayr al-Shaykh
  Dayr al-Shaykh
  Dayr al-Shaykh was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem, also known as the Jerusalem corridor. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
  
  
• Deir Yassin
  Deir Yassin
  Deir Yassin was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 people near Jerusalem. It had declared its neutrality during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
  
  , massacre, April 9–11
• Ein Karim
• Ishwa
• Islin
  Islin
  - History :In 1596, Islin appeared as Islit in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Jaffa. It had a population of 14 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, and goats or beehives....
  
  
• Ism Allah, Khirbat
  Ism Allah, Khirbat
  Ism Allah, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 26 km west of Jerusalem. Khirbat Ism Allah was mostly destroyed with the exception of several...
  
  
• Jarash
• al-Jura
  Al-Jura
  Al-Jura was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, located approximately two kilometers west of Majdal . In 1945, the village had a population of approximately 2,420 mostly Muslim inhabitants...
  
  
• Kasla
  Kasla, Jerusalem
  Kasla was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 17, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 17 km west of Jerusalem. The Canaanites and Romans referred to Kasla as the city of Chesalon...
  
  
• al-Lawz, Khirbat
  Al-Lawz, Khirbat
  Al-Lawz, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 13, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 11 km west of Jerusalem, situated north of Wadi al-Sarar....
  
  
• Lifta
  Lifta
  Lifta was an Arab village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Its population fled during the Arab-Jewish hostilities of 1947/48 and the efforts to relieve the Siege of Jerusalem . The village and spring for which it is named are now a park on the hillside between the western entrance to Jerusalem and...
  
  
• al-Maliha
• Nitaf
  Nitaf
  Nitaf , Natâf, was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948 during the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 17 km west of Jerusalem...
  
  

• al-Qabu
  Al-Qabu
  Al-Qabu , was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. The name is an Arabic variation of the site's original Roman name, and the ruins of a church there are thought to date to the to the era of Byzantine or Crusader rule over Palestine....
  
  
• Qalunya
  Qalunya
  Qalunya was a Palestinian Arab village located west of Jerusalem.Prior to the village's destruction in 1948, with the exception of 166 dunums, Qalunya's land was privately owned: 3,594 dunums were owned by Arabs, while 1,084 dunums were owned by Jews....
  
  
• al-Qastal
  Al-Qastal
  Al-Qastal was a Palestinian village that was depopulated in the lead up the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.- History :Under the name of Belveer or Beauverium, Qastal belonged to the Hospitalers by c. 1168 and was listed amongst the castles supposedly destroyed by al-Adil in 1191–2...
  
  
• Ras Abu 'Ammar
  Ras Abu 'Ammar
  Ras Abu 'Ammar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948 by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 14 km west of Jerusalem, surrounded on three sides by the Wadi al-Sarar.In 1945, the...
  
  
• Romema
  Romema
  Romema is a neighborhood in the city of Haifa, Israel. Romema is located east of Ahuza, on the northern slope of Mount Carmel...
  
  
• Sar'a
  Sar'a
  Sar'a , was a Palestinian Arab village located 25 km west of Jerusalem.-History:The Canaanites referred to Sar'a by the name of Sur'a or Zorah, mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was known as part of the territory of the Tribe of Judah, on the boundary of the Tribe of Dan. Later, the Romans...
  
  
• Saris
  Saris
  Saris was a Palestinian Arab village that was depopulated during the major offensive launched by the Haganah on 6 April 1948. Called Operation Nachshon, and launched before the British had left Palestine, its objective was to capture villages between Jerusalem and the coastal plain.-History:During...
  
  
• Sataf
  Sataf
  Sataf was an Arab village in the District of Jerusalem depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It is located 10 km west of Jerusalem, with Sorek riverbed bordering the east....
  
  
• Suba
  Suba, Jerusalem
  Suba was a Palestinian Arab village west of Jerusalem that was depopulated and destroyed in 1948. The site of the village lies on the summit of a conical hill called Tel Tzova , or Jabal Suba, rising 769 metres above sea level, and it was built on the ruins of a Crusader castle.- Post-Crusader...
  
  
• Sufla
  Sufla
  Sufla was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948 by the Sixth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade under Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem....
  
  
• al-Tannur, Khirbat
  Al-Tannur, Khirbat
  Al-Tannur, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948 under Operation Ha'ar. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem.-References:...
  
  
• al-'Umur, Khirbat
  Al-'Umur, Khirbat
  Al-'Umur, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jerusalem. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 12 km west of Jerusalem on the Wadi al-Ghadir....
  
  
• al-Walaja
  Al-Walaja
  -Bibliography:*Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener : . London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 3 p. 206-207-External links:******, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center*...
  
  

District of Jenin

District of Jenin

The District of Jenin was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Jenin. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• Ayn al-Mansi
  Ayn al-Mansi
  Ayn al-Mansi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin of the British Mandate of Palestine. It was depopulated as a result of a military attack in mid-April during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.-External links:*...
  
  
• al-Jawfa, Khirbat
  Al-Jawfa, Khirbat
  Al-Jawfa, Khirbat was a Palestinian village that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-Location:The village was situated west of Jenin, on the top of a small circular plateau that extended from the northern slope of a mountain...
  
  
• al-Lajjun
• al-Mazar
  Al-Mazar
  Al-Mazar was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of al-Sarafand. As of 1945, it had a population of 210.-History:The village name, which is Arabic for "shrine", "a place one visits", was probably meant to commemorate the many people who were killed and buried there in the wars against the...
  
  
• Nuris
  Nuris
  Nuris was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 29, 1948 under Operation Gideon.-Location:...
  
  
• Zir'in
  Zir'in
  Zir'in was a Palestinian Arab village of over 1,400 in the Jezreel Valley, located north of Jenin. Identified as the Canaanite town of Yizre'el, it was known as Zir'in during Islamic rule, and was near the site of the Battle of Ain Jalut, in which the Mamluks halted Mongol expansion southward...
  
  

District of Ramla

District of Ramla

The District of Ramle was an administrative sub-district, a division of the Lydda district of the British Mandate of Palestine. The sub-district's main city was Ramle. Its total population in 1944 was estimated at 123,490, of which 88,560 were Muslims; 29,420 were Jews; and 5,500 were Christians...

• Abu al-Fadl
  Abu al-Fadl (village)
  Abu al-Fadl was a village in the district of al-Ramla, about northwest of al-Ramla in, what was until 1948, British Mandate of Palestine. The village was also known as al-Satariyya...
  
  
• Abu Shusha
  Abu Shusha
  Abu Shusha was an Arab village in Palestine, 8 km southeast of Ramle which was depopulated in 1948.Abu Shusha was located on the slope of Tel Jazar, which is commonly identified with the ancient city of Gezer....
  
  
• Ajanjul
  Ajanjul
  Ajanjul was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. The Abu Ghosh family took up residence in Ajanjul in the 18th century...
  
  
• Aqir
  Aqir
  Aqir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramle located 9 km southwest of Ramla and 1 km north of Wadi al-Nasufiyya .-History:...
  
  
• Barfiliya
  Barfiliya
  Barfiliya was a Palestinian Arab village located east of Ramla that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Located on a tell, excavations conducted there by Israeli archaeologists beginning in 1995 found artifacts dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period .Barfiliya lay on a...
  
  
• al-Barriyya
  Al-Barriyya
  Al-Barriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 as part of Operation Dani. It was located 5.5 km southeast of Ramla on the eastern bank of Wadi al-Barriyya....
  
  
• Bashshit
  Bashshit
  Bashshit was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla about half a mile from Wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Islamic period and 12th and 13th centuries CE...
  
  
• Bayt Far, Khirbat
  Bayt Far, Khirbat
  Bayt Far, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948. It was located 14 km south of Ramla.In 1945 it had a population of 300....
  
  
• Bayt Jiz
  Bayt Jiz
  Bayt Jiz was a Palestinian Arab village situated on undulating land in the western foothills of the Jerusalem heights, southwest of Ramla. In 1945, it had a population of 550...
  
  
• Bayt Nabala
  Bayt Nabala
  Bayt Nabala or Beit Nabala was a Palestinian Arab village in the district of Ramla in Mandatory Palestine that was destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village was in the territory allotted to the Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan...
  
  
• Bayt Shanna
  Bayt Shanna
  Bayt Shanna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Dani...
  
  
• Bayt Susin
  Bayt Susin
  Bayt Susin was a Palestinian Arab village in Mandatory Palestine, located southeast of Ramla. In 1945, it had 210 inhabitants. The village was depopulated during the 1948 war by the Israeli 7th Brigade.-Geography:...
  
  
• Bir Ma'in
  Bir Ma'in
  Bir Ma'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 during the second phase of Operation Danny by the First and Second Battalions of the Yiftach Brigade. It was located 14 km east of Ramla. The village was...
  
  
• Bir Salim
  Bir Salim
  Bir Salim was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade. It was located 4 km west of Ramla.The population in 1945 was 410....
  
  
• al-Burj
  Al-Burj
  al-Burj is a Palestinian village located twenty kilometers southwest of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate, southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,578 464 in 2007...
  
  
• al-Buwayra, Khirbat
  Al-Buwayra, Khirbat
  Al-Buwayra, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 under the second phase of Operation Dani...
  
  
• Daniyal
  Daniyal
  Daniyal was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 5 km east of Ramla and south-east of Lydda.In 1945 it had a population of 410...
  
  
• Dayr Abu Salama
  Dayr Abu Salama
  Dayr Abu Salama was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 13, 1948 in the first phase of Operation Dani.It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla....
  
  
• Dayr Ayyub
  Dayr Ayyub
  Dayr Ayyub was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 6, 1948 by the Givati and Sheva' brigades of Operation Nachshon. It was located 17.5 km southeast of Ramla, situated close to Bab al-Wad...
  
  
• Dayr Muhaysin
  Dayr Muhaysin
  Dayr Muhaysin was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla located 12 km southeast of Ramla and 4 km west of Latrun. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 during Operation Nachshon....
  
  

• Dayr Tarif
  Dayr Tarif
  Dayr Tarif was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla.The Romans referred to Dayr Tarif as Bethariph. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Ninth Commando Battalion of the Armored Brigade of Operation Dani...
  
  
• al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat
  Al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat
  Al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Givati Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 6 km northeast of Ramla....
  
  
• al-Haditha
  Al-Haditha
  Al-Haditha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla, situated on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf....
  
  
• Idnibba
  Idnibba
  Idnibba was a Palestinian village, located at latitude 31.7426937N and longitude 34.8561001,E in the southern part of Ramla district. It was depopulated in 1948, at which time its population was 568, and its lands are now used by Kfar Menahem.-History:...
  
  
• Innaba
  Innaba
  Innaba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach and Eighth brigades of Operation Dani. It was located 7 km east of Ramla....
  
  
• Jilya
  Jilya
  Jilya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. The Romans referred to it as Jilya by Galla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by the Givati Brigade of the first stage of Operation Dani on July 9, 1948. It was located 17 km south of Ramla.A 1596 census revealed...
  
  
• Jimzu
  Jimzu
  Jimzu also known as Gimzo, , was a Palestinian village, located three miles southeast of Lydda. Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan of British Mandate Palestine, Jimzu was to form part of the proposed Arab state...
  
  
• Kharruba
  Kharruba
  Kharruba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 by the Yiftach Brigade. It was located 8 km east of Ramla. Kharruba was completely destroyed soon after occupation, and only rubble was left behind.In 1945 the...
  
  
• al-Khayma
  Al-Khayma
  Al-Khayma was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.In 1945 it had a population of 190....
  
  
• Khulda
  Khulda
  Khulda was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Ramla in the Mandatory Palestine. Known as Huldre to the Crusaders, it is also mentioned in documents dating to the periods of Mamluk, Ottoman, and Mandatory rule over Palestine. During the 1948 war, the village was depopulated as part of...
  
  
• al-Kunayyisa
  Al-Kunayyisa
  Al-Kunayyisa was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 under the first stage of Operation Dani.It was located 12 km southeast of Ramla....
  
  
• al-Latrun
• Lydda (Lod
  Lod
  Lod is a city located on the Sharon Plain southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2010, it had a population of 70,000, roughly 75 percent Jewish and 25 percent Arab.The name is derived from the Biblical city of Lod...
  
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• al-Maghar
  Al-Maghar
  al-Maghar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated by the Givati Brigade during Operation Barak on 18 May 1948. It was located 12 km southwest of Ramla, situated north of Wadi al-Maghar....
  
  
• Majdal Yaba
  Majdal Yaba
  Majdal Yaba was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of Ramla and east of Jaffa. A walled city stood at the same site as early as 3000 BCE, and Majdal Yaba is first mentioned by the name Aphek in Egyptian Execration texts dating to the 19th century BCE...
  
  
• al-Mansura
  Al-Mansura, Ramla
  Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 under Operation Barak.It was located 10 km south of Ramla....
  
  
• al-Mukhayzin
  Al-Mukhayzin
  Al-Mukhayzin was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation Har'el. It was located 10 km southwest of Ramla....
  
  
• al-Muzayri'a
  Al-Muzayri'a
  -Location:Al-Muzayri'a was located north-northeast of al-Ramla, on limestone hill, overlooking the coastal plain. A wadi ran along its southern part, and separated it from the village of Qula. The village was about 1 km east of the al-Ramla-Haifa railway line. It was also located to the east...
  
  
• al-Na'ani
  Al-Na'ani
  Al-Na'ani was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramle. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 14, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation Barak. It was located 6 km south of Ramle....
  
  
• Nabi Rubin
  Nabi Rubin
  Al-Nabi Rubin was a Palestinian village in central Palestine, located west of Ramla, just northeast of Yibna and south of Jaffa. The village was situated on the southern banks of Wadi al-Sarar, also known as Sorek Stream, at an elevation of below sea level. Nabi Rubin is named after a shrine in...
  
  
• Qatra
  Qatra
  Qatra was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of the city of Ramla and west of Jerusalem, some above sea level.- History :Qatra was a Canaanite center of political and economic authority that along with 30 other urban sites in regions bordering the Mediterranean sea, entered a period...
  
  

• Qazaza
  Qazaza
  Qazaza was a Palestinian village, located south of Ramla. It was depopulated in 1948.-History:A European traveler reported that he passed Qazaza in the 1860s on his way to examine a nearby tell. The villagers of Qazaza, who were predominantly Muslim, maintained a village mosque and some owned...
  
  
• al-Qubab
  Al-Qubab
  Al-Qubab was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated in July 1948 during the Operation Dani led by the Yiftach Brigade.-History:...
  
  
• al-Qubayba
  Al-Qubayba
  al-Qubayba was a Palestinian village, located 24 kilometers northwest of Hebron.-History:Known in Crusader times as Deirelcobebe, the ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish lay adjacent to the village, which was subject to extensive archaeological excavations by the British Mandatory...
  
  
• Qula
  Qula
  Qula was a Palestinian village in the British Mandate District of Ramla 15 km northeast of Ramla, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.Hasan Salama and his son Ali Hassan Salameh were from Qula.-History:...
  
  
• Ramla
  Ramla
  Ramla , is a city in central Israel. The city is predominantly Jewish with a significant Arab minority. Ramla was founded circa 705–715 AD by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman ibn Abed al-Malik after the Arab conquest of the region...
  
  ; see Exodus from Lydda and Ramla
• Sajad
  Sajad
  Sajad was a Palestinian village, located sixteen kilometers south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:The village of Sajad was the site of a railway station built by the French in Ottoman era Palestine. In August 1892 the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway service was...
  
  
• Salbit
  Salbit
  Salbit was a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of al-Ramla. It has been identified with the biblical town of Shaalabbin which was located northwest of biblical Aijalon . Salbit was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war after a military assault by Israeli forces...
  
  
• Sarafand al-'Amar
• Sarafand al-Kharab
  Sarafand al-Kharab
  Sarafand al-Kharab ) was a Palestinian Arab village located above sea level, west of al-Ramla, in the area that is today north-east of Ness Ziona.-History:...
  
  
• Saydun
  Saydun
  Saydun was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun....
  
  
• Shahma
  Shahma
  Shahma was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla. Depopulated on the eve of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the village lands today form part of a fenced in area used by the Israeli Air Force.-Location:...
  
  
• Shilta
  Shilta
  Shilta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 18, 1948 by the First Battalion of the Yiftach Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 15 km east of Ramla....
  
  
• al-Tina
  Al-Tina
  Al-Tina was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948 by the Givati Brigade under Operation An-Far. It was located 20.5 km south of Ramla....
  
  
• al-Tira
  Al-Tira (Ramla)
  Al-Tira was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Alexandroni and Armored brigades under Operation Dani. It was located 12 km northeast of Ramla...
  
  
• Umm Kalkha
  Umm Kalkha
  Umm Kalkha was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 12.5 km south of Ramla, situated on the northern banks of Wadi al-Sarar.In 1945 it had a...
  
  
• Wadi Hunayn
  Wadi Hunayn
  Wadi Hunayn was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was located 9 km west of Ramla. According to a local tradition, it was named after the Yemeni home of the Qada'a tribe who settled here in the early Islamic period....
  
  
• Yibna
  Yibna
  Yibna was a Palestinian village of 5,420 inhabitants, located 15 kilometers southwest of Ramla. Yibna was occupied by Israeli forces on June 4, 1948, and was depopulated during the military assault and expulsion.-History:...
  
  
• Zakariyya, Khirbat
  Zakariyya, Khirbat
  Zakariyya, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 under the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 9 km east of Ramla. Khirbat Zakariyya was completely destroyed with the exception of its...
  
  
• Zarnuqa
  Zarnuqa
  Zarnuqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla.In 1924, the land was sold by Shukri brothers, and Abd al-Rahman al-Taji al-Farouqi....
  
  

District of Safad

District of Safad

The District of Safad was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Safad. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• Abil al-Qamh
  Abil al-Qamh
  Abil al-Qamh was a Palestinian Arab village located north of Safad and south of the Lebanese-Israeli border. It was built in a hilly area north of the Hula Valley.-History:...
  
  
• al-'Abisiyya
  Al-'Abisiyya
  Al-'Abisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 29, 1948 by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28.5 km northeast of Safad near to the Banyas River which the village relied on...
  
  
• Alma
  Alma, Palestine
  Alma was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 during Operation Hiram. It was located 10 km north of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 950...
  
  
• Ammuqa
  Ammuqa
  Ammuqa was a Palestinian village, located five kilometres northeast of Safed.-History:Known locally for its seven springs, Ammuqa also enjoyed renown as the site of the sepulchre of Jonathan ben Uzziel...
  
  
• Arab al-Shamalina
  Arab al-Shamalina
  Arab al-Shamalina also known as Khirbat Abu Zayna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate , a sub operation of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• Arab al-Zubayd
  Arab al-Zubayd
  Arab al-Zubayd was a Palestinian village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, when the villagers fled on hearing the intentions of The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• Baysamun
  Baysamun
  Baysamun was a small Palestinian Arab village, located northeast of Safad. In 1945, it had a population of 20. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach....
  
  
• Biriyya
  Biriyya
  Biriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948 by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located northeast of Safad...
  
  
• al-Butayha
  Al-Butayha
  Al-Butayha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate. It was located 13 km southeast of Safad, quarter of a mile east of the Jordan River...
  
  
• al-Buwayziyya
  Al-Buwayziyya
  Al-Buwayziyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad....
  
  
• Dallata
  Dallata
  Dallata was a Palestinian Arab village, located on a hilltop north of Safad. Constructed upon an ancient site, it was known to the Crusaders as Deleha. Dallata was included in the late 16th century Ottoman census and British censuses of the 20th century...
  
  
• al-Dawwara
  Al-Dawwara
  Al-Dawwara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• Dayshum
  Dayshum
  Dayshum was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 30 October 1948 by the Sheva Brigade of Israeli paramilitary force Palmach in an offensive called Operation Hiram, where the village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind...
  
  
• al-Dirbashiyya
  Al-Dirbashiyya
  Al-Dirbashiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 20 km northeast of Safad in the Hula Valley, bordering Hula...
  
  
• al-Dirdara
  Al-Dirdara
  Al-Dirdara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under Operation Yiftach. It was located 13 km east of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 100....
  
  
• Ein al-Zeitun
  Ein al-Zeitun
  Ein al-Zeitun, also spelled Ein Zaytun, Ein ez-Zeitun, Ain al-Zaytun or Ain el-Zeitun, was a Palestinian Arab village, located north of Safad in the Upper Galilee. In 1945, the village had a population of 820 inhabitants and a total land area of 1,100 dunams. Ein al-Zeitun was entirely Muslim...
  
  
• Fara
• al-Farradiyya
• Fir'im
  Fir'im
  Fir'im was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war. It was first attacked during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion during Operation Yiftach. In 1945 the population had...
  
  
• Ghabbatiyya
  Ghabbatiyya
  Ghabbatiyya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 12 km northwest of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 60 people.-History:...
  
  
• Ghuraba
  Ghuraba
  Ghuraba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 28, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad.In 1945 it had a population of 220....
  
  
• al-Hamra'
  Al-Hamra'
  Al-Hamra' was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 24.5 km northeast of Safad, 1 km northwest of Wadi...
  
  
• Harrawi
  Harrawi
  Harrawi was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 18 km northeast of Safad....
  
  
• Hunin
• al-Husayniyya
  Al-Husayniyya
  Al-Husayniyya was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948.On the 13th of May 1948, Haganah paramilitary forces committed a crime by killing more than 30 children and women, which lead to the rest of people living in the village to flee and seek shelter in Lebanon and Syria.-Location:The...
  
  
• Jahula
  Jahula
  Jahula was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad....
  
  

• al-Ja'una
  Al-Ja'una
  Al-Ja'una or Ja'ouna , was a Palestinian village situated in Galilee on the slopes of Mount Canaan near al-Houleh Plateau, overlooking the Jordan Valley. The village lay on a beautiful hill side 450–500 meters above sea level, 5 kilometers east of Safad near a major road connecting Safad with...
  
  
• Jubb Yusuf
  Jubb Yusuf
  Jubb Yusuf was a Palestinian village depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.Situated in rocky terrain northwest of Lake Tiberias, the village was associated with a nearby well, Jubb Yussef , which was the site of a khan or caravan stopping place for centuries.-History:Under the Ottoman Empire,...
  
  
• Kafr Bir'im
  Kafr Bir'im
  Kafr Bir'im, also Kefr Berem , was an Arab Christian village in Palestine located south of the Lebanese border and northwest of Safed. The village was situated above sea level, with a church overlooking it at an elevation of . The church was built on the ruins of an older church destroyed in an...
  
  
• al-Khalisa
  Al-Khalisa
  Al-Khalisa was a Palestinian Arab village situated on a low hill on the northwestern edge of the Hula Valley of over 1,800 located north of Safad.-History:...
  
  
• Khan al-Duwayr
  Khan al-Duwayr
  Khan al-Duwayr was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 35 km northeast of Safad....
  
  
• Karraza, Khirbat
  Karraza, Khirbat
  Karraza, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad.-History:Khirbat Karraza was a...
  
  
• al-Khisas
  Al-Khisas
  Al-Khisas was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad in Mandate Palestine.-Geography:Al-Khisas was located north northeast of Safad upon a natural terrace about wide. The terrace was formed thousands of years earlier after ancient Lake al-Hula receded...
  
  
• Khiyam al-Walid
  Khiyam al-Walid
  Khiyam al-Walid was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad located northeast of Safad along the Syrian border. It was on situated on a hill above sea level on the eastern edge of the Hula Valley. In 1945, there were 280 predominantly Muslim inhabitants...
  
  
• Kirad al-Baqqara
  Kirad al-Baqqara
  Kirad al-Baqqara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• Kirad al-Ghannama
  Kirad al-Ghannama
  Kirad al-Ghannama was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 22, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad...
  
  
• Lazzaza
  Lazzaza
  Lazzaza was a Palestinian Arab village of 230 in the northern Hula Valley next to the Hasbani River, located northwest of Safad.-History:Travelers in the nineteenth century describe Lazzaza, while under Ottoman rule, as a village of 70 people built of adobe bricks and situated on a plain near a...
  
  
• Madahil
  Madahil
  Madahil was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• al-Malikiyya
  Al-Malikiyya
  al-Malikiyya was a Lebanese village located in the Jabal Amil district of Lebanon. In a 1920s census, the village was registered as Lebanon. It was later placed under the British Mandate of Palestine. Its population was Metawali Shiite, and were originally considered to be from Lebanon...
  
  
• Mallaha
  Mallaha
  Mallaha was a Palestinian Arab village, located northeast of Safed, on the highway between the latter and Tiberias. 'Ain Mallaha is the local Arabic name for a spring that served as the water source for the village inhabitants throughout the ages...
  
  
• al-Manshiyya
• al-Mansura, Safad
  Al-Mansura, Safad
  Al-Mansura was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 under Operation Yiftach. It was located 31 km northeast of Safad on the Banyas River. In 1945 it had a population of 360....
  
  
• Mansurat al-Khayt
  Mansurat al-Khayt
  Mansurat al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safad, 1 km west of the Jordan River....
  
  
• Marus
  Marus
  Marus was a Palestinian village 7 km northeast of Safad in the District of Safad, that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war during the Israeli military operation Operation Hiram by the Israeli attacking brigade Sheva' Brigade....
  
  
• Mirun
• al-Muftakhira
  Al-Muftakhira
  Al-Muftakhira was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25.5 km northeast of Safad....
  
  
• Mughr al-Khayt
  Mughr al-Khayt
  Mughr al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 4.5 km northeast of Safad. In 1945 it had a population of...
  
  
• al-Muntar, Khirbat
  Al-Muntar, Khirbat
  Al-Muntar, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by Palmach's First Battalion and 'Oded Brigade of Operation Yiftach after resistance by the Syrian Army. It was located 8.5 km east of Safad.In the 19th century, Turkish...
  
  
• al-Nabi Yusha'
  Al-Nabi Yusha'
  -History:During the late eighteenth century, a family known as al-GhuI established the shrine for Nabi Yusha’ , which included a mosque and a building for visitors, as an act of devotion...
  
  
• al-Na'ima
  Al-Na'ima
  Al-Na'ima was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• Qabba'a
  Qabba'a
  Qabba'a was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 26, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km northeast of Safad....
  
  
• Qadas
  Qadas
  Qadas was a Lebanese village located 17 kilometers northeast of Safad that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. One of seven Shiite Muslim villages called Metawalis that fell within the boundaries of British Mandate Palestine, Qadas lay adjacent to Nebi Yusha, near the tel of the...
  
  

• Qaddita
  Qaddita
  Qaddita was a Palestinian Arab village of 240, located northwest of Safad. It was captured and depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, with some of its inhabitants fleeing to nearby Akbara where they live as internally displaced Palestinians and others to refugee camps in Lebanon or...
  
  
• Qaytiyya
  Qaytiyya
  Qaytiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 19, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 28 km northeast of Safad, bordering both the Hasibani and the Dan Rivers.In 1945, the village had a...
  
  
• al-Qudayriyya
  Al-Qudayriyya
  Al-Qudayriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south...
  
  
• al-Ras al-Ahmar
  Al-Ras al-Ahmar
  Al-Ras al-Ahmar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948 by the Sheva' Brigade during Operation Hiram. It was located 8.5 km north of Safad....
  
  
• Sabalan
• Safsaf
  Safsaf
  Safsaf was a Palestinian village located 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:The village was called Safsofa in Roman times...
  
  , massacre
• Saliha
  Saliha
  Saliha is one of the Seven Lebanese Villages that was later transferred to the British Mandate of Palestine. Originally part of the Jabal Amel district of South Lebanon, this term has been historically used to denote the homeland of Shi'a Muslims in Southern Lebanon...
  
  , massacre
• al-Salihiyya
  Al-Salihiyya
  Al-Salihiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 25 km northeast of Safad, situated on the intersection of the Jordan River and Wadi Tur'an.In...
  
  
• al-Sammu'i
  Al-Sammu'i
  Al-Sammu'i was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 4 km west of Safad....
  
  
• al-Sanbariyya
  Al-Sanbariyya
  Al-Sanbariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by Palmach's First Battalion under Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• Sa'sa'
  Sa'sa'
  Sa'sa was a Palestinian village, located 12 kilometres northwest of Safed that was depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...
  
  
• Safad
• al-Shawka al-Tahta
  Al-Shawka al-Tahta
  Al-Shawka al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach...
  
  
• al-Shuna
  Al-Shuna
  Al-Shuna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km south of Safad, overlooking the deep gorge of Wadi al-'Amud.In...
  
  
• Taytaba
  Taytaba
  Taytaba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under Operation Hiram. It was located 5 km north of Safad overlooking Wadi Taytaba, a tributary of Wadi Waqqas.In 1945, the village had a...
  
  
• Tulayl
  Tulayl
  Tulayl was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad located northeast of Safad. It was situated on small, sandy hill on the southwestern shore of Lake Hula, near the merging of two wadis. Together with the nearby village of al-Husayniyya, it had a population of 340 in 1945...
  
  
• al-'Ulmaniyya
  Al-'Ulmaniyya
  Al-'Ulmaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 14.5 km northeast of Safad.A 1596 census revealed a...
  
  
• al-'Urayfiyya
  Al-'Urayfiyya
  Al-'Urayfiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 21.5 km northeast of Safad. The village has been mostly...
  
  
• al-Wayziyya
  Al-Wayziyya
  Al-Wayziyya was a former Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 8.5 km northeast of Safad.In 1945, the village had a...
  
  
• Yarda
  Yarda
  Yarda is a village situated in Tanout Department, Zinder Region, Niger. Its geographical coordinates are 14° 46' 0" North, 8° 32' 0" East.YARDA also is the name of fashion brand. YARDA is abbreviation of "Yaser Dadkhah".www.yarda.com...
  
  
• al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta
  Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta
  Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War. The village was located 1 km west of Safad and covered an area of 16,304 dunums.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• al-Zanghariyya
  Al-Zanghariyya
  Al-Zanghariyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matate. It was located 8.5 km southeast of Safad, near Wadi al-Ghara. The village was later burned and destroyed on...
  
  
• al-Zawiya
• al-Zuq al-Fawqani
  Al-Zuq al-Fawqani
  Al-Zuq al-Fawqani was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 32 km southeast of Safad....
  
  
• al-Zuq al-Tahtani
  Al-Zuq al-Tahtani
  Al-Zuq al-Tahtani was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 30 km northeast of Safad.In 1945, the village had a total...
  
  

District of Tiberias

District of Tiberias

The District of Tiberias was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Tiberias. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated.-Depopulated settlements:...

• Awlam
  Awlam
  Awlam was a Palestinian village located south of Tiberias situated on the slopes of the westward Wadi Awlam.-History:Awlam is identified as Oulamma, an important town that existed during the Roman era of rule in Palestine...
  
  , Arab evacuation order, April-May 1948.
• al-Dalhamiyya
  Al-Dalhamiyya
  Al-Dalhamiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948 under Operation Gideon. It was located 14 km south of Tiberias, situated on the north bank of the Yarmuk River, on the...
  
  
• Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
  Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
  Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya....
  
  
• Hadatha
  Hadatha
  Hadatha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was abandoned during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 under the orders of the Arab Higher Committee. It was located 12.5 km southwest of Tiberias....
  
  , Arab evacuation order, April-May 1948.
• al-Hamma
• Hittin
  Hittin
  Hittin was a Palestinian village, located approximately west of Tiberias. The site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which Saladin conquered most of interior Palestine from the Crusaders, Hittin is a nationalist symbol for Arabs and Palestinians...
  
  
• Kafr Sabt
  Kafr Sabt
  Kafr Sabt was a Palestinian Arab village of nearly 500 situated on a sloping plain in the eastern Lower Galilee located southwest of Tiberias.-History:While Palestine was part of the Roman Empire, Kafr Sabt was known as Kafar Shabtay...
  
  
• Lubya
  Lubya
  Lubya was a Palestinian Arab town located ten kilometers west of Tiberias that was captured and destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
  
  
• Ma'dhar
  Ma'dhar
  Ma'dhar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 by the Golani Brigade of Operation Gideon...
  
  , Arab evacuation order, April-May 1948.

• al-Majdal
• al-Manara
  Al-Manara
  Al-Manara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948 by Jewish troops. It was located 5 km south of Tiberias. The Crusaders referred to al-Manara as Menan.In 1945 it had total population of...
  
  
• al-Manshiyya
• al-Mansura, Tiberias
  Al-Mansura, Tiberias
  Al-Mansura was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948. It was located 16 kilometres northwest of Tiberias.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Nasir al-Din
• Nimrin
  Nimrin
  Nimrin was a Palestinian Arab town of 320 that was captured and depopulated by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:Nimrin stood on the site of Kfar Nimra when Palestine was ruled by the Roman Empire...
  
  
• al-Nuqayb
  Al-Nuqayb
  Al-Nuqayb was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located 10 km east across the lake from Tiberias. bordering the Wadi al-Muzaffar and Wadi Samakh...
  
  
• Samakh
• al-Samakiyya
  Al-Samakiyya
  Al-Samakiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matat. It was located 11 km northeast of Tiberias, near the Wadi al-Wadabani....
  
  

• al-Samra
  Al-Samra
  Al-Samra was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 10 km southeast of Tiberias....
  
  
• al-Shajara
  Al-Shajara
  al-Shajara is a former Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 14 kilometers west of Tiberias on the main highway to Nazareth near the villages of Lubya and Hittin....
  
  
• al-Tabigha
• al-Ubaydiyya
• al-Wa'ra al-Sawda', Khirbat
• Yaquq
  Yaquq
  Yaquq was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948...
  
  

District of Tulkarm

District of Tulkarm

The District of Tulkarm was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Tulkarm. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the district disintegrated, the western part became part of the Central District of Israel and the eastern part, became a part of the...

• Bayt Lid, Khirbat
  Bayt Lid, Khirbat
  Khirbat Bayt Lid was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  
  
• Bayyarat Hannun
  Bayyarat Hannun
  Bayyarat Hannun was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm, in the area which is now Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on March 31, 1948 under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 16 km west of Tulkarm.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Fardisya
  Fardisya
  Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on April 1, 1948 under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 2.5 km south of Tulkarm. Fardisya was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single deserted house. The Crusaders referred to...
  
  
• Ghabat Kafr Sur
  Ghabat Kafr Sur
  Ghabat Kafr Sur was a mixed Palestinian Arab and Jewish village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 15, 1948 under Operation Coastal Clearing...
  
  
• al-Jalama
• Kafr Saba
  Kafr Saba
  Kafr Saba was a Palestinian-Arab village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for more than a millennium...
  
  

• al-Majdal, Khirbat
  Al-Majdal, Khirbat
  Khirbat al Manshiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948 under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 10 km north of Tulkarm....
  
  
• al-Manshiyya
• Miska
  Miska
  Miska was a Palestinian village, located fifteen kilometers southwest of Tulkarem, depopulated in 1948.-History:Miska was founded by descendants of the Arabian tribe of Miskain in the 7th century Islamic conquest of Palestine....
  
  
• Qaqun
  Qaqun
  Qaqun was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain....
  
  
• Raml Zayta
  Raml Zayta
  Raml Zayta was a Palestinian Arab village located 15 km northwest of Tulkarm. In 1945, the village had a population of 140. Raml Zayta was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine...
  
  
• Tabsur
  Tabsur
  Tabsur , also Khirbat 'Azzun , was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarem. In 1931, the village had 231 houses and an elementary school for boys. It was depopulated before the outbreak of 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:...
  
  

• Umm Khalid
  Umm Khalid
  Umm Khalid , also called Mukhalid, was a Palestinian village in the District of Tulkarm, west of Tulkarm. It was an ancient site in the central coastline of what is now the city of Netanya, Israel.-History:...
  
  
• Wadi al-Hawarith
  Wadi al-Hawarith
  Wadi al-Hawarith was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 15, 1948 under Operation Coastal Clearing . It was located 16.5 km northwest of Tulkarm...
  
  
• Wadi Qabbani
  Wadi Qabbani
  Wadi Qabbani , also known as Khirbat ash Sheik Husein was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was probably depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948 as part of Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 12 km northwest of Tulkarm.In...
  
  
• al-Zababida, Khirbat
  Al-Zababida, Khirbat
  Khirbat al Zababida was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located southwest of Tulkarm, south of the Wadi al-Faliq. Khirbat al-Zababida was mostly destroyed except for four deserted houses....
  
  
• Khirbat Zalafa

See also

• Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus
  Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus
  The causes and explanations of the exodus of Palestinian Arabs that arose during the 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War are a matter of great controversy between historians and journalists, and of the Arab-Israeli conflict....
  
  
• Exodus from Lydda and Ramla
• Jewish exodus from Arab lands
  Jewish exodus from Arab lands
  The Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries was a mass departure, flight and expulsion of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from Arab and Muslim countries, from 1948 until the early 1970s...
  
  
• Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War
• List of Israeli military operations in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
• Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab-Israeli conflict
  Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab-Israeli conflict
  Pre-1967 Syrian towns and villages on the Golan Heights before the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War comprised 312 inhabited areas, including 2 towns, 163 villages, and 108 farms. In 1966, the Syrian population of the Golan Heights was estimated at 147,613....
  
  
• List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust
• List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
• Palestinian refugee camps
• Plan Dalet
  Plan Dalet
  Plan Dalet, or Plan D, was a plan worked out by the Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary group and the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces, in Palestine in autumn 1947 to spring 1948. Its purpose is much debated...
  
  
• Transfer Committee
  Transfer Committee
  The Transfer Committee was set up, unofficially, by non-Cabinet members of the first government of Israel in May 1948, with the aim of overseeing the removal of Palestinian Arabs from their towns and villages, and preventing their return...
  
  
• Khirba
  Khirba
  Khirba is an Arabic term that refers to a secondary or satellite village on the outskirts of an agricultural village. The khirba was used intermittently during the year, primarily during the plowing or harvest seasons....