Ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Find out what happened to the more than 530 Palestinian villages that were destroyed in 1948.

Interactive Ethnic cleansing palestine

To create the state of Israel, Zionist forces attacked major Palestinian cities and destroyed more than 530 Palestinian villages. In 1948, approximately 13,000 Palestinians were killed and more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, becoming refugees. This was the climax of Zionist ethnic cleansing. Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants number more than seven million. Many still languish in refugee camps in neighbouring Arab countries, waiting to return to their homeland.

Find out what happened to the more than 530 Palestinian villages that were destroyed in 1948 by searching through the database of villages below:

Source: Al Jazeera