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Palestine before the Nakba

Fishing in
Palestine Before the Nakba: Abundant Seas and Good Times

Before the 1948 Nakba, fishing sustained many Palestinian families along a coast stretching from Ras al-Naqoura to Rafah, and on the shores of Lake Tiberias and Lake Hula. The peop...

Palestine before the Nakba

Palestinian Industries
Before the Nakba: Soap, Olive Oil & More

Before the 1948 Nakba, Palestine had a diverse range of industries and crafts rooted in agriculture, the sea and trade. The best known were Nablus soap making and olive oil pressin...

Palestine before the Nakba

Palestine That
Read: Libraries, Newspapers and Printing Presses Before the Nakba

From Palestine’s Cultural HistoryPalestine That Read: Libraries, Newspapers and Printing Presses Before the NakbaFrom Jerusalem’s book collections to the newsrooms of Jaffa and Hai...

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UN Security
Council Resolution 338 After the October 1973 War

On October 22, 1973, while the October War was still raging on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 338.The resolution was introdu...

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Kudna

Kudna – Depopulated Palestinian Village of the Hebron DistrictKudna, also rendered Kidna, was a depopulated Palestinian village in the Hebron District. It stood on the lower wester...

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Ra'na

Ra'na – Depopulated Palestinian Village of the Hebron DistrictRa'na was a depopulated Palestinian village in the Hebron District. It stood on the eastern slopes of the western foot...

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Khirbat al-Tannur
- Allar al-Sifla

Khirbat al-Tannur ('Allar al-Sufla) – Depopulated Palestinian Village in Jerusalem SubdistrictKhirbat al-Tannur, historically known as 'Allar al-Sufla or 'Allar al-Tahta (“Lower 'A...

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We will not forget Balad al-Shaykh Huj Al-Tantura Al-Birwa Al-Dawayima Tarshiha Al-Khisas Kafr Bir'im Al Qubab Al-Shajara Dayr Yasin Eilabun Asluj al-Burj Qira (Qira and Qamun) Safsaf Al-Majdal (Tiberias) Bir Salim 435 villages

From the country’s album

Palestine before the Nakba

Towns woken by the train whistle, ports shipping Jaffa oranges to the world, villages harvesting wheat and pressing olives, schools, newspapers and theatres — Palestine as its people lived it before 1948.

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The line that joined Haifa to Gaza, and Jaffa to Jerusalem
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78 years since the Nakba
and the key is still hanging

The root of the story

A homeland that was…
then a Nakba that did not end

The Nakba is not an event that ended in 1948.
It is a process that continues to this day.

0 villages documented in the archive, whose people were expelled in 1948 and still carry the keys to their homes.

The story is longer than a page… take it with you.

The full Nakba file in Our Palestine App: village by village, massacre by massacre, and a camp that still waits to return.

A record that does not close

Zionist massacres
committed by the occupation against our people

The full massacre record

117 documented massacres that mapped the expulsion. We gather them here by name, because forgetting is a second crime.

Return is a right that refuses to be forgotten

Palestinian refugee camps
A tent that became a city

68 camps documented in the archive, home to refugees who still carry their villages’ names in their papers and their memory — and in keys to houses they have not returned to.

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Handala
Handala is still turned away They thought absence would last days… it became generations

What our grandmothers stitched

Palestinian heritage

A dress for every town and a stitch for every village, a coffee pot on the fire of welcome, olives pressed every autumn — a memory that is worn, cooked and sung, kept here so it is not forgotten.

  • The thobe
  • The dallah
  • The olive
  • The jar
A thobe chest panel in cross-stitch

The first qibla and the third of the two holy mosques

Al-Aqsa Mosque

«سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ»

At the heart of Jerusalem, Palestine, lies the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a revered place for Muslims worldwide. It's one of the largest mosques globally and holds significant religious importance as one of the three mosques Muslim...

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Doors of the file

A visual archive — live documentation of an ongoing genocide

The genocide in Gaza
A city erased moment by moment

Gaza is no longer only a place-name. It is the name of a tragedy renewed every day: houses falling on their people, whole families struck from the civil record, and a childhood that grows — if it is allowed to grow — to the sound of bombardment.

  • Living testimonies from the heart of the Strip, in the voices of those who remain
  • Filmed reports documenting massacres and destruction neighbourhood by neighbourhood, house by house
  • An archive kept for history and justice, so that what happened is not denied and those who were killed are not forgotten
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A memory that cannot be folded away

Palestinian martyrs

They are not numbers in a passing headline. Names, faces, and stories that deserve to be told and kept — we remember them so memory is not erased.

“And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.” Qur’an 3:169
87,767 Total martyrs
  • 24,926 Children
  • 14,204 Women
  • 44,941 Men
Browse the martyrs register

The full archive with search and filters — in Our Palestine app

Calendar of memory

Events and dates in the history of the Palestinian cause

Pick a day on the calendar to read what happened on it. Days marked with a dot have documented events.

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Archive of the genocide in Gaza
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Land ownership in Palestine before the Nakba
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Palestinian martyrs since 2000 in Our Palestine App
The interactive encyclopedia of the Palestinian cause
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The record of Zionist massacres in Our Palestine App
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Depopulated villages

Villages destroyed by Zionist gangs during the Nakba of 1948

Villages expelled and wiped from the map. Choose a district to browse its villages.

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