Index: Places

• Acre — Kanafani’s birthplace, and the site of the prison where 148 revolt prisoners were hanged, in the booklet’s figure.
• ‘Akbara — Depopulated village south of Safad where Qadditha’s Hulayhel clan was forcibly settled in 1949, in Manna’s account.
• Al-Ghabisiyya — Village north of ‘Akka that won a 1951 Supreme Court return ruling and was re-expelled under a closed-area declaration, in Manna’s account.
• Al-Jalama — Triangle hamlet illegally expelled in 1950, which won a Supreme Court return order its houses’ destruction by a kibbutz defeated, in Manna’s account.
• Al-Rama — Galilee village whose Christians were expelled on 31 October 1948 and allowed back within a day or two after Druze intervention, in Manna’s account.
• ‘Ara — Wadi ‘Ara village where soldiers killed two and wounded five Eid al-Fitr villagers at the border on 23 June 1952, in Manna’s account.
• Ayn al-Hilwa — Refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon, where the Manna family and other Majd al-Krum refugees lived more than two years before returning in 1951, in Manna’s account.
• Ayn al-Zaytun — Galilee village massacred on 2 May 1948 by Moshe Kalman’s Palmach troops, the best documented of the three urban-fringe massacres, in Pappe’s account.
• Ayn Ghazal — Village of 3,000 bombed on 26 July 1948 as its people broke the Ramadan fast; seventeen selected men killed on the spot, in Pappe’s account.
• Ayn Hawd — Village left intact by its occupiers and turned into the artists’ colony Ein Hod, while one clan family built a new, unrecognised Ayn Hawd nearby, in Pappe’s account.
• Balad al-Shaykh — Village east of Haifa attacked on 31 December 1947 on orders to kill the largest possible number of men, leaving over sixty dead, in Pappe’s account.
• Bassa — Largest of the Operation Ben-Ami revenge villages, whose young men were executed in front of one of its churches after it resisted, in Pappe’s account.
• Baysan — Town seized in Operation Gideon, surrendered on 11 May 1948 and expelled across the Jordan, in Pappe’s account.
• Beersheba — Southern town of 5,000 occupied on 21 October 1948 and driven out to Hebron, its district ninety per cent depopulated by December, in Pappe’s account.
• Bethlehem — West Bank city turned outside in by nine settlements, the Barrier and some 78 obstacles, cut off from Jerusalem in Makdisi’s account.
• Bil’in — West Bank village near Ramallah, a particularly active site of weekly nonviolent protests against the separation wall in Falk’s account.
• Dawaymeh — Village where Battalion 89 killed 455 people by the mukhtar’s count on 28 October 1948, investigated by the UN PCC, in Pappe’s account.
• Deir Yassin — Arab village, site of the April 1948 massacre for which Begin admits responsibility in The Revolt, as Said presents it.
• Gaza — Setting of Kanafani’s short story Letter From Gaza (fiction): the narrator’s home town, which in the story he refuses to leave after visiting Nadia.
• Haifa — Port city central to the Arab labour movement, Qassam’s organising, and the revolt’s military build-up.
• Har Homa — Settlement on Jabal Abu Ghneim, Bethlehem and Beit Sahour families’ land expropriated in 1991 for “public use” and planned for up to 30,000 Jewish residents, in Makdisi’s account.
• Hebron — Southern West Bank city of 130,000 Palestinians where some 500 settlers inside city limits, defended by 10 soldiers per settler, dominate the whole, in Makdisi’s account.
• Hittin — Village above the Sea of Galilee defended by 25 volunteers and cleansed brutally by Brigade Seven on 17 July 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Hula — Southern Lebanon village where ninety-four people were murdered in Operation Hiram, including thirty-four prisoners blown up in their detention house, in Manna’s account.
• Ijzim — Village of 3,000 that resisted Operation Policeman for three days into the second truce and was expelled to Jenin, in Pappe’s account.
• Ilabun — Galilee village occupied in Operation Hiram, whose people were expelled to Lebanon and whose Christians were then ordered back, in Pappe’s account.
• ‘Illut — Nazareth-district village whose people suffered two massacres in July 1948, were expelled to Nazareth, and were allowed to return at the beginning of 1950, in Manna’s account.
• Iqrit — Maronite village evicted in 1948 on a promise of return, which won a Supreme Court ruling in 1951 and was then demolished on Christmas Eve 1951, in Pappe’s account.
• Israel — The state Sayegh calls the Zionist settler-state, created in 1948 and characterised by racism, violence and territorial expansion.
• Jaffa — Port city central to the Arab labour movement, 1936 demolitions, and the revolt’s outbreak.
• Jenin — The refugee camp invaded 3-15 April 2002, where Pappe quotes a nurse’s killing and records the abandoned UN fact-finding mission.
• Jerusalem Light Rail — The tramway linking West Jerusalem to the East Jerusalem colonies, presented by Barghouti as entrenching the Judaization of Jerusalem.
• Jish — Maronite border village that escaped the border-strip expulsion order through the minorities ministry, most Christians staying while most Muslims were uprooted, in Manna’s account.
• Karmiel — Jewish city prepared by decreeing 200,000 dunums between al-Shaghur and al-Battuf a closed area, in Manna’s account.
• Kfar Bir’im — Galilee village whose people won a court ruling for return and whose village the army then destroyed, in Pappe’s account.
• Kfar Lam — Apolitical coastal village taken on 16 July 1948 whose intelligence file fed the claim that it was ‘rightfully returned’ to the Jewish people, in Pappe’s account.
• Khisas — Hula Plain village attacked on 18 December 1947 despite the operation’s cancellation, fifteen villagers including five children killed, in Pappe’s account.
• Kufr ‘Inan — Galilee village emptied after Operation Hiram, its remaining villagers expelled in 1949 and its refugees settled for decades at al-Rama, in Manna’s account.
• Kufr Manda — Galilee village whose 13 December 1954 land protest Manna calls the first mass protest in defence of remaining Arab land.
• Kufr Qari’ — Wadi ‘Ara village deserted for eleven months that returned under its own power in April 1949 on the eve of the Triangle’s transfer, in Manna’s account.
• Kufr Yasif — Western Galilee village saved by a Druze-mediated surrender agreement on 10 July 1948, though refugees sheltering there were expelled, in Manna’s account.
• Lifta — Jerusalem village of 2,500 attacked on 28 December 1947 and finally expelled and mostly blown up on 11 January 1948, in Pappe’s account one of the first villages ethnically cleansed.
• Lydd — The ‘city of the mosques’, bombarded from the air, scene of the Dahamish Mosque massacre and emptied by a forced march of about 50,000, in Pappe’s account.
• Majd al-Krum — Galilee village whose surrender, al-‘Ayn Square massacre, expulsion of hundreds and partial return open Manna’s Nakba and Survival.
• Nablus — Northern West Bank city under siege in Makdisi’s account: nightly raids, the 2002 offensive and thousands of hours of curfew.
• Nahaf — Al-Shaghur village fired on and expelled after its surrender, allowed to return two to three days later, its story confirmed by a 1951 Supreme Court ruling, in Manna’s account.
• Nazareth — The only Arab city in pre-1967 Israel, whose total eviction Ben-Gurion countermanded because the Christian world was watching, in Pappe’s account.
• Nazareth Elit — Upper Nazareth, the Jewish city decided in 1954 and begun in 1956 beside Arab Nazareth on confiscated land, opening the Judaization of the Galilee, in Manna’s account.
• Qadditha — Village near Safad whose Hulayhel clan returned through Mano Friedman but was resettled at ‘Akbara while the village’s houses were blown up, in Manna’s account.
• Qalqilya — Northern West Bank city around which Makdisi’s “Outsides” chapter is built.
• Qisarya — Coastal village of 1,500, the first village expelled in its entirety, on 15 February 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Rafah Crossing — The only land crossing between Palestine and Egypt, whose opening and closure form Chapter 6’s “Gaza test”.
• Ramla — Town of 17,000 taken after Lydd despite an agreement that its people could stay; Rabin recalled Ben-Gurion’s hand-wave: ‘Drive them out!’, in Pappe’s account.
• Red House — The Tel-Aviv building that became the Hagana headquarters at the end of 1947, where on 10 March 1948 the final touches were put to Plan Dalet; later razed for a car park.
• Safad — Galilee town of 9,500 Arabs taken by the Palmach after its hinterland was cleansed under Operation ‘Broom’, in Pappe’s account.
• Saffuriyya — Village near Nazareth bombarded from the air and evicted entire in June 1948, its people watching it become the moshav Zippori, in Pappe’s account.
• Safsaf — Galilee village taken on 29 October 1948, whose seventy captured men were blindfolded and summarily shot and whose people were driven to Lebanon, in Pappe’s account.
• Saliha — Border village that had resisted the ARA’s presence and was massacred in Operation Hiram — ninety-four killed by Galili’s report, one hundred and five by a 1985 testimony list, in Manna’s account.
• Sa’sa — Galilee village attacked on the night of 14–15 February 1948, 35 houses demolished and 60–80 people killed, in Pappe’s account.
• Sha’b — Galilee village expelled in Operation Hiram whose houses were given to other Arabs, its people fighting in court and by return to live in it again, in Manna’s account.
• Shafa ‘Amr — Galilee town whose July 1948 fall was the first practical test of the secret Druze agreement, its inhabitants spared maltreatment and expulsion, in Manna’s account.
• Sirin — Village near Baysan promised immunity through its Zu’bi clan but doomed by its 1943 village file, expelled across the Jordan and demolished entire on 12 May 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Tantura — Coastal village of around 1,500, attacked on 22 May 1948, whose captured men were selected from the village file on the beach and executed, in Pappe’s account.
• Tarshiha — Large western Galilee village bombarded at Hiram’s opening and mostly emptied, whose few hundred remaining, mainly Christians, refused to leave, in Manna’s account.
• Tiberias — City on the Sea of Galilee, the first urban centre of the urbicide, which fell on 18 April 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Tirat Haifa — Village of 5,000 south of Haifa, ‘Tira of the almonds’, taken on 16 July 1948 in Operation Policeman, in Pappe’s account.
• Transjordan — Neighbouring state whose regime mediated the revolt’s end, suppressed its own support movement, and handed over Abu Durrar in 1939.
• The Triangle — The strip of twenty-seven villages and 31,000 people transferred from Jordan to Israel in May 1949 under the Rhodes armistice, in Manna’s account.
• Wadi Ara — Valley of fifteen villages that held out with Iraqi help and escaped expulsion, ceded to Israel by Abdullah in 1949, in Pappe’s account.