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As Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba is not the beginning of history, but it is a key part of Palestinian history – and the root of the creation of Israel.
Before the Nakba, Palestine had a thriving population – largely Arabs – who had lived and worked the land for centuries. But with the founding of Zionism, years of British interference, and the British commitment to help create a Jewish state in Palestine, things began to change dramatically. In 1947, amid growing tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs, the British left Palestine and the UN intervened with a plan to divide the land into two states. What followed was known as Plan Dalet: operations by Israeli paramilitary groups that violently uprooted Palestinians. An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, more than 500 villages decimated and around 750,000 Palestinians displaced.
Most of those who were expelled from their homes were unable to return to historic Palestine. And today, millions of their descendants live in refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and neighboring countries. The story of the Nakba has been deliberately concealed and often ignored in Western narratives surrounding the creation of Israel. In this episode of Missing Chapter, we explain how the Nakba happened – and how it defined the future of Palestine.
Sources:
Check out the documentary “1948: Creation & Catastrophe” by Ahlam Muhtaseb and Andy Trimlett for more information on the events surrounding the Nakba – https://tubitv.com/movies/513674/1948-creation-catastrophe
All That Remains: Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 has been a valuable resource to help us understand the Nakba – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22236243-all-that-remains
For our maps, we relied heavily on these organizations: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding, Palestine Remembered, and Zochrot.
http://www.passia.org/maps/view/2
https://imeu.org/topic/category/maps
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Maps/index.html
https://www.zochrot.org/
This report from Ilan Pappe helped us understand how Zionist forces planned to destroy villages –
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650358
For our population distribution we primarily used the Australian National University's archive of Palestine census reports –
https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/bdm/yabber/yabber_census.html
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