Lest We Forget the Palestinian Villages Destroyed by Israel in 1948 and the Names of Their Martyrs

Description

This comprehensive and unprecedented reference work, the result of five years of in-depth research and the collaborative efforts of three institutions and research teams, provides a detailed and precise description of 418 Palestinian villages deliberately destroyed by Israel, whose inhabitants were expelled during the 1948 war. Through its classified entries, it presents statistical data and a topographical, historical, and economic overview of each village on the eve of the 1948 war. It then details the circumstances of their fall under Zionist military occupation and their subsequent fate, before moving on to the current situation of the sites where the villages once stood, including the settlements established on their land. The reference includes a large collection of photographs, maps, and appendices, and is prefaced by an analytical introduction by Walid Khalidi, the foremost Arab historian of the 1948 war. In his introduction, Khalidi presents the conditions under which the Palestinian countryside fell to Israeli occupation, within a broader analytical framework of the war and the developments in the Palestinian cause. With its data and interacting factors.