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At dawn on Sunday 13 November 1966 Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of al-Samu, south of Hebron – the West Bank was then under Jor...

Al-Faluja was a Palestinian town in the Gaza district, some 30 kilometres north-east of the city on the road linking Gaza and Hebron. In the...

Beersheba, capital of the Naqab and the largest city of southern Palestine, was rebuilt by the Ottomans in the early twentieth century as th...

Al-Shajara was a Palestinian village in the Tiberias district, south-west of the town between Nazareth and Tiberias, and from the start of t...

Al-Malikiyya was a small Palestinian village in the mountains of Upper Galilee, 15.5 kilometres from Safad and less than half a kilometre fr...

Qaqun was an Arab village north-west of Tulkarm, on the edge of the coastal plain, whose people fought several battles against the Zionist m...

Ghor al-Safi is an agricultural plain south-east of the Dead Sea, some eight kilometres from the settlement built by the Zionist potash comp...

Latrun is a hill and crossroads at the western gateway to the Jerusalem mountains, crowned by a fortified police station and a monastery and...

Khirbat al-Mahm is a site in the north-western countryside of Jerusalem, between the villages of Qatanna and Beit Anan, close to Radar Hill,...

In early 1948 the villages of Lower Galilee around Nazareth became a single line of defence. When the men of Arab al-Subeih clashed with a H...

In early June 1948 the Zionist militias advanced from Afula on Jenin with thousands of fighters, occupying the villages to its north, encirc...

Kawkab al-Hawa was a small Palestinian village in the Baysan district, 11 kilometres from the town, standing some 300 metres above the Jorda...

Beit Daras was a Palestinian village in the Gaza district, 32 kilometres north-east of the city, linked by roads to Isdud on the coast and t...

Radar Hill is a hilltop between the Arab village of Biddu and the settlement of Ma’ale HaHamisha, north-west of Jerusalem, where the British...

Sheikh Jarrah is an Arab Jerusalem neighbourhood north of the Old City, crossed by the road on which the Zionist militias depended to supply...

The battle of Shu’fat was an ambush laid on 24 March 1948 by Holy Jihad fighters and fighters from Jerusalem and the nearby villages for a Z...

The battle of Atarot was an attack launched on 15 March 1948 by Holy Jihad fighters and volunteers from Jenin and Syria on the Zionist settl...

The battle of Ras al-Ain was a series of clashes between March and June 1948 over the spring of Ras al-Ain in central Palestine, whose water...