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Oral History

Beside the emergence of the State of Israel, the other major result of the 1948 war was the destruction of the Palestinian society and the birth of the refugee problem. About 700,000 Palestinian, the figure was later to be a major point of dispute, the Israelis officially speaking of some 520,000, the Palestinian themselves of 900,000-1,000,000--fled or were ejected from the areas that became the Jewish State and resettled in the territories that became known as the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, with additional small communities in Egypt, Iraq and the Diaspora. Here we are publishing some of the testimonies of the eyewitnesses of the Palestinian Catastrophe.

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12/27/2006 2:42:00 AM

Husni Hasan Arafeh, Abu Hasan

zajel/ An-Najah National University

Once we heard the sound of clashes around the village of Aker. Whilst in the farm, Jews asked me where I was working and if I would like to escape as they were ... more

5/17/2006 5:34:00 AM

Saleem Hashem Ali Al-Shobaki

Zajel / An-Najah National University

I was young, and I was living with my family in a village next to Java named Arab al-shobaki, my father was doing so many works. We were not listening to the ... more

9/7/2005 7:03:00 AM

Abdul Qader Yousef Alhafi

Zajel / An-Najah National University

I fled with all my family members, my parents and the rest of the village peasants. Our village had fertile land and we had a field next to it, the Mediterranean .. more

8/14/2005 5:29:00 AM

Fatmeh Daoud Abdul Rahman

Zajel / An-Najah National University

I used to get the daily news from Abu Kayed, who would go to the coffee shop, where there was radio. He would listen to the news from both the radio and from the people and he was updating ... more

7/31/2005 6:07:00 AM

Khalid Rashid Mansor

Zajel / An-Najah National University

I was born in the village of Ejzim and I was sixteen at the time of the Nakba. I studied at the Arab School of Haifa, which was mostly damaged and has now been converted into a bar; it was located in a street called Albasha. more

7/31/2005 4:34:00 AM

Radeyeh Husein Meri`

Zajel / An-Najah National University

The peasants of Lajon hosted us for a while and while we were fleeing out of our village there was a pregnant woman with us; she delivered while we were walking. She suffered a lot.... more

7/19/2005 6:08:00 AM

Abdul Ghani Ismail Doleh

Zajel / An-Najah National University

Before the Diaspora, life was very good; the country was open for movement, there were no clashes, we could go swimming at the beach and the levels of welfare were good - we had a car at that time... more

7/18/2005 7:53:00 AM

Hafiza Abdullah

Zajel / An-Najah National University

We were surviving on what farm produce we had: watermelons, cucumbers, corn and wheat. We were enjoying daily life and we were getting the news by listening to the radio... more

2/14/2005 3:48:00 PM

Abu Omar Lidawi