This list of Arab towns and villages that were depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus 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, then renamed. Towns and villages are arranged according to the subdistrict of the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine they were situated in.
District of Acre
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 Al-Bassa 2005 |
 Jiddin, Khirbat, 2007 |
 al-Sumayriyya, 2008 |
 The remains of al-Zeeb, 2008 |
 al-Zeeb beach, 2008 |
 Shrine of Nabi Rubin, 2005 |
District of Baysan
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 The Belvoir fortress in Kawkab al-Hawa, 2008 |
District of Beersheba
- Beersheba, military assault, expulsions, October 20
- al-Imara
- Isdud (Ashdod)
- al-Jammama
- al-Khalasa
- Majdal (Ashkelon), flight, military assault, expulsion, November 4
 The well at al-Khalasa, 1900-1926 |
 Israeli troops in Beersheba, October 20, 1948 |
District of Gaza
 Al-Faluja, February 28, 1949 |
District of Haifa
 Ein Hod, circa 2009 |
 Wadi Ara, 2007 |
District of Hebron
 Bayt Jibrin, 2005 |
District of Jaffa
 Yazur, 2008 |
District of Jerusalem
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.jpg) Deir Yassin, now part of the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center |
District of Jenin
 Zir'in, 1918 |
District of Nazareth
- Indur
- Ma'lul
- al-Mujaydil
- Saffuriyya
- al-Subeih
District of Ramla
 Lydda in 1920 |
 Ramla between 1870 and 1880 |
 The Trappist monastery in Latrun |
District of Safad
 Safad, 1908 |
District of Tiberias
 Hittin 1934 |
District of Tulkarm
 Qaqun, 2008 |
See also
- 1948 Palestinian exodus
- Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus
- Exodus from Lydda and Ramla
- Jewish exodus from Arab lands
- Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine War
- List of Israeli military operations in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
- List of Syrian towns and villages destroyed by Israel
- 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
- Transfer Committee
Notes
References
- Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, 2004. See in particular pp. xiv-xviii, where Morris lists 389 Palestinian villages depopulated by massacres, expulsions, military assault, or flight.
- Morris, Benny. 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. Yale University Press, 2008.
- Khalidi, Walid. (ed.) All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies 1992, 2006.
- Shavit, Ari. Deir Yasian: Survival of the Fittest, interview with Benny Morris, Haaretz, January 9, 2004.
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