29 November 2021 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Rubric: General, Union for the Mediterranean
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Towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war © Wiki Commons
During the
1947–1949 Palestine war around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated, with a majority being entirely destroyed and left uninhabitable (
Nakba). Today these locations are in
Israel; many of the locations were repopulated by
Jewish immigrants, with their
place names replaced with new Hebrew place names.
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