How Palestinians were expelled from their homes
The Palestinian catastrophe, explained.
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Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba isn’t the beginning of the story, but it’s a key part of Palestinian history — and the root of Israel’s creation.
Prior to the Nakba, Palestine had a thriving population — largely made up of Arabs — that had lived and worked the land for centuries. But with the founding of Zionism, years of British meddling, and a British pledge to help create a Jewish state in Palestine — things began to change drastically. By 1947, with increasing tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs — the British left Palestine, and the UN stepped in with a plan to partition the land into two states. What followed was known as Plan Dalet: operations by Israeli paramilitary groups that violently uprooted Palestinians. An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, more than 500 villages were decimated, and roughly 750,000 Palestinians displaced.
Most who were expelled from their homes couldn’t return to historic Palestine. And today, millions of their descendants live in refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding countries. The history of the Nakba has been deliberately concealed and often ignored in western narratives around the creation of Israel. In this episode of Missing Chapter, we break down how the Nakba happened — and how it defined the future of Palestine.
Sources:
Check out the documentary “1948: Creation & Catastrophe” by Ahlam Muhtaseb and Andy Trimlett for more information about the events around the Nakba – https://tubitv.com/movies/513674/1948-creation-catastrophe
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 was a great resource in helping us understand the Nakba – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22236243-all-that-remains
For our maps, we relied heavily on these organizations: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding, Palestine Remembered and Zochrot
http://www.passia.org/maps/view/2
https://imeu.org/topic/category/maps
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Maps/index.html
https://www.zochrot.org/
This report by Ilan Pappe helped us understand how Zionist forces planned to destroy villages –
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650358
For our population breakdowns, we mainly used Australian National University’s Palestine Census reports archive –
https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/yabber_census.html
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@Vox
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
The Nakba isn’t a long-faded memory. It’s a deeply felt, visceral, and ongoing pain. And since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, Palestinians now fear a permanent displacement.
Vox senior reporter Sigal Samuel explains current calls from Israel’s politicians and defense establishment to expel Palestinians and provides context for this rapidly developing crisis. Read: https://bit.ly/49bOkSr
@apolodelsol
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Britain to be held accountable ✊🏼🇵🇸🕊
@spjkq
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Why didn’t the Arabs go into Jordan (Trans-Jordan at the time). There was lots of land there. The video doesn’t acknowledge the pogroms by Arabs against Jews; it doesn’t acknowledge the Arabs who chose to remain and become citizens of Israel; and it doesn’t acknowledge the Jews chased from Arab countries into Israel. The refugees of 1948 have long since ceased to be refugees; they are Arabs who are free to live in peace with (or within) Israel.
@PlainTruth888
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Was there even a known Palestinian Prime Minister, President, King or Sultan of Palestine 2000 years before 1968?
NO! So, when was Palestine EVER "Palestinians"?
Before 1918, Palestine belonged to Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Are Palestinians Turks? NO!
After 1918, it belonged to British Empire, who through UN, GAVE a piece of land to Israel in '48 to establish its nationhood.
So, when was Palestine EVER "Palestinians"?
Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied West Bank from 1948 to 1967.
Where was such a nation called Palestine involved in the wars with Israel during this period? NO!
Totally non-existence. That's why there was no protest to return Gaza and West Bank to the "Palestinians".
Palestinians don't exist then either.
Except for groups of wondering arabian gypsies and blatant land robbers, now lying & slandering for the past 50 years.
You see, Palestine never existed as a country, or as a nation, or as a state, before 1968.
It is just a name for a land mass within the Arabian Peninsula, just like Europe, Asia, Africa, North & South America, etc.
These wondering arabian gypsies then applied the term "Palestinians" to themselves in the 1960's,…
and thereafter, started to twist facts and distort history to blend with their "cause".
@PlainTruth888
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Was there even a known Palestinian Prime Minister, President, King or Sultan of Palestine 2000 years before 1968?
NO! So, when was Palestine EVER "Palestinians"?
Before 1918, Palestine belonged to Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Are Palestinians Turks? NO!
After 1918, it belonged to British Empire who GAVE a piece to Israel in '48 to establish its nationhood.
So, when was Palestine EVER "Palestinians"?
Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied West Bank from 1948 to 1967.
Where was such a nation called Palestine involved in the wars with Israel during this period? NO!
Totally non-existence.
Except for groups of wondering arabian gypsies and blatant land robbers lying & slandering for past 76 years.
You see, Palestine never existed as a country or as a nation, or as a state before 1968. It is just a name for a land mass within the Arabian Peninsula…
just like Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, etc.
And these wondering arabian gypsies applied the term "Palestinians" to themselves in the 1960's, and then started to twist facts and distort history to suit their cause.
@Notnow22
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
I wonder where are all the extremist groups in the midst of all this. Did they come out of thin air?
@axelhalbardier8874
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
No border, no states!
@RobertoMartinez-vu3cl
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
THIEF'S, THATS ALL
@adrosanchez4012
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
You should know about the onu resolution 181…
@nicolasaguilar7703
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Y ahora el imperio trata de terroristas a la resistencia.
@nicolasaguilar7703
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Judios traumados del holocausto que llegaron a palestina fueron peores que bestias, se volvieron criminales de niños, mujeres, abuelos. El Gobierno de Israel esta condenado a ser destruido por su maldad.
@choco-une
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
This video putting all the Hasbara plants to work
@adrosanchez4012
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Onu resolution 181
@nicolasmartin-minaret6157
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
That would be honest to insist that the exageration about attrocities in Deir Yassin and the fear was mostly carried out by Arab medias and states
@nicolasmartin-minaret6157
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
The Balfour declaration is not that, sorry
@OsterreichAnimate
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Israel existed in 1000 B.C
@leejohn6685
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
So to recap all of this…. the oppressed become the oppresser?
@bananabatsy3708
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Many false narratives in this video. Palestinians always started a war they couldn't win, then played victim. Since 300 A.D.
@aseelbx14.93
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
This is why Vox is one of the best YouTube channels! Thank you for spreading and aware people about the real history🤍
@jayedahmad9632
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
I was really lachrymal after watching this. Thank you vox for all
@VanessaPaxton
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Are you gonna make a video of how the Jews from the Arab world were expelled from their homes? Gonna make anything about Black September? Or the exodus from Kuwait in 1990-91 after Desert Storm and why it happened in first place?
@Arghun-Khan
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Kudos to Palastenians for not giving up despite all odds❤ . As a Kashmiri I see them as inspiration
@karihamalainen9622
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Ask why Hizzbolah do not allow to choose LEBANON PRESIDENT????
@YehiaAyad-c4m
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
The truth will win even when it takes decades of lies and disguised crimes from Israel and the West!
@kevinng7462
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Both Jews and Palestinians have legitimate claims to the land of Palestine, as their histories trace back to the Levant and the Canaanites. Initially known as Judea, the region became Palestine in the 2nd century. This historical context does not involve the Arabs, who arrived much later in the 7th century. The truly indigenous Palestinians, numbering in the tens of thousands, lived in small villages under Ottoman rule. Today, 95% of modern Palestinians are Arabs from neighboring countries, as evidenced by their surnames. The Arab League has grouped both Arabs and indigenous Palestinians together under the term ‘Palestinian’ to support the Palestinian cause, aiming for the establishment of a 23rd Arab state. This is the core of the issue.
@gundarsmiks4889
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Something is missing here. Zero word about eirob attacks. Zero! This doesnt sound like truth!
@gundarsmiks4889
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
So basicaly its all UN's fault! Let the people handle theyr lands!!
@mohsinyusuf805
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
outrageous and saddening to see how a prosperous country is reduced to chaos and rubble
@Doritos_09
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
WITHOUT LIES, ISLAM DIES!!!!!
@Jamilah2024
October 23, 2024 at 5:40 am
Lahaula wala quwata illa billah hil aliyil azim