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Neirab Camp
Neirab camp or Al-Nayrab camp is a Palestinian refugee camp that was set up near the village of Al-Neirab, 13 km from Aleppo, Syria. It was created in 1948–1950 following the Nakba. It is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, with a reported number of 23,469 people as of 2024. It is also considered one of the poorest. History The camp was created in 1948 to accommodate for Palestinian refugees that fled during the Nakba. Originally, the camp consisted of barracks used by allied troops during World War II, but it quickly grew outside of those, due to the number of refugees. There were plans by the UNRWA to remove the camp in the early 1960s, but those plans didn't come to fruition. In 1988, it was already the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. In 2010s, the barracks were still seen by some refugees as a symbol of their origins and their struggles, even though most, if not all, of the barracks were destroyed since. The camp was described, around this period, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Refugee Camps
Palestinian refugee camps were first established to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight during the 1948 Palestine war. Camps were established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. A subsequent wave of Palestinian refugees were created in the Naksa after the Six-Day War in 1967. There are 68 Palestinian refugee camps in total, 58 official and 10 unofficial,UNRWA Annual Operational report 2019 for the Reporting period 01 January – 31 December 2019 pages 168-169, "Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Statistics" ten of which were established af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel. It is home to the Baháʼí Faith's Baháʼí World Centre, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Baháʼí pilgrimage. Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the settlement has a history spanning more than 3,000 years. The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age (14th century BCE).Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopedia Judaica, ''Haifa'', Keter Publishing, Jerusalem, 1972, vol. 7, pp. 1134–1139 In the 3rd century CE, Haifa was known as a Tool and die maker, dye-making center. Over the millennia, the Haifa area has changed hands: being conquered and ruled by the Canaanites, History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israelites, Phoenicians, Assy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rima Hassan
Rima Hassan Mobarak (; born 28 April 1992) is a French jurist and politician of Palestinian origin, born in the refugee camp of Neirab, near Aleppo, Syria. Stateless, she arrived in France around the age of nine and settled with her family in Niort. After obtaining French nationality upon reaching adulthood, she earned a master's degree in international law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Hassan then founded, in 2019, the 'Refugee Camps Observatory', an NGO dedicated to the study and protection of refugee camps worldwide. In 2023, she founded the 'Action Palestine France' collective. That same year, she joined La France Insoumise to contest the 2024 European Parliament election on Manon Aubry's list. She was elected to the European Parliament on 9 June 2024. Early life and education Rima Hassan Mobarak was born on 28 April 1992 in the Neirab camp, near Aleppo, Syria, the youngest of six children. Her mother, Nabiha (1958–2021), was a teacher, while her father, Ahmad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayn Ghazal (village)
Ayn Ghazal (, "Spring of the Gazelle") was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Haifa. Depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a result of an Israeli military assault during Operation Shoter, the village was then completely destroyed. Incorporated into the State of Israel, it is now mostly a forested area. The Israeli moshav of Ofer ("fawn") was established in 1950 on part of the former village's lands. Ein Ayala, a moshav established in 1949, lies just adjacent; its name being the Hebrew translation of Ayn Ghazal.Bronstein in Masalha, 2005p. 233 History In 1517 the area of 'Ayn Ghazal was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517–1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain. In 1799, it appeared as the village Ain Elgazal on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jish
Jish (, ), also known by its Hebrew name of Gush Halab (, ), or by its classical name of Gischala, is a local council in Upper Galilee, located on the northeastern slopes of Mount Meron, north of Safed, in Israel's Northern District. In , it had a population of , which is predominantly Maronite Catholic and Melkite Greek Catholic Christians (63%), with a Sunni Muslim Arab minority (about 35.7%).YNE''On the slopes of a hill, at an elevation of 860 meters surrounded by cherry orchards, pears and apples, built houses, especially church building looks from afar. Number of inhabitants 3,000 divided by 55% Maronite Christian, 30% Greek Catholics and the rest are Muslims.'' Jish is the ancient ''Giscala'' or ''Gush Halav'', first mentioned in the historical record by the History of the Jews in the Roman Empire, Roman-Jewish historian Josephus, who described it as the home of John of Giscala and the last city in the Galilee to fall to the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safsaf
Safsaf ( ''Ṣafṣāf'', " weeping willow") was a Palestinian village 9 kilometres northwest of Safed, present-day Israel. Its villagers fled to Lebanon after the Safsaf massacre in October 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. History The village was called Safsofa in Roman times. According to Yaqut, it was harried in 950 CE by the Hamdanid ruler of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. Ottoman era In the early sixteenth century CE, Safsaf was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, and by the 1596 tax records, it was a village in the ''nahiyah'' ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of Sanjak Safad. It had a population of 25 households, an estimated 138 persons, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on several agricultural items, including wheat, barley, olives and fruits, as well as other types of produce, such as beehives and goats; a total of 3,714 akçe. A quarter of the revenue went to a waqf (religious endowment). In 1838 Safsaf was noted as a village in the Safad d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Nahr
al-Nahr (), was a Palestinian village northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the village of al-Nahr was razed.Benvenisti, 2000, pp138-139/ref> History The twin villages of al-Nahr and nearby al-Tall were both sites of ancient settlements atop the tel of Kabri. Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the sixth millennium BC.Stern, Lewinson-Gilboa and Avriam, 1993, pp. 839–841 Ottoman era In the Ottoman period, the village appeared under the name of ''El Qahweh'' in Pierre Jacotin´s map from 1799. In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called ''El Kahoueh''. He found it to have 120 inhabitants, all Muslims. In 1881 the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' described the village, then named ''El Kahweh'', as a "stone village, containing about 250 Moslems, [] situated o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kweikat
Kuwaykat (), also spelled Kuweikat, Kweikat or Kuwaikat, was a Palestinian village located 9 km northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in 1948. History The old ''khan'' (caravansary) in Kuwaykat possibly dated to the Crusader period or an earlier date. According to historian Denys Pringle, the ''khan'' might have been part of the headquarters of Genoese estate in the village built in the 13th century. It consisted of a round barrel-vaulted building made of ashlar. In 1245 the western part of Kuwaykat was owned by the Church and Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr in Acre.Röhricht, 1893, RRH, p 301 No. 1135; Cited in Pringle, 2009, p 163/ref> Ottoman era In the late Ottoman period, Kuwaykat was named ''Chiouwe chiateh'' on the French map Pierre Jacotin made of the area during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1799. In 1875 Victor Guérin visited, and found the village surrounded with gardens planted with fig and olive trees, and with an ancient well. He further no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hittin
Hittin (, transliterated ''Ḥiṭṭīn'' () or ''Ḥaṭṭīn'' ()) was a Palestinian village located west of Tiberias before it was occupied by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when most of its original residents became refugees after being ethnically cleansed. As the site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which Saladin reconquered most of Palestine from the Crusaders, it has become an Arab nationalist symbol. The shrine of Nabi Shu'ayb, venerated by the Druze and Sunni Muslims as the tomb of Jethro, is on the village land. The village was ruled by the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until the end of World War I, when Palestine became part of the British Mandate for Palestine. On July 17 1948, the village was occupied by Israel during the nakbaa, after its residents fled out of their homes because of Nazareth's occupation. in later years, the Moshavs Arbel and Kfar Zeitim were erected where Hittin used to be. History Hittin was located on the norther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarshiha
Ma'alot-Tarshiha (; ) is a city in the North District, Israel, North District in Israel, about east of Nahariya, and about Above mean sea level, above sea level. The city was established in 1963 through a municipal merger of the Arab citizens of Israel, Arab town of Tarshiha and the Jewish town of Ma'alot, creating a unique type of mixed city. In , it had a population of . History Tarshiha Excavations of a 4th-century burial cave in the village, unearthed a Christian cross, cross and a piece of glass engraved with a Menorah (Temple), menorah. Crusades, Crusader sources from the 12th and 13th century refer to Tarshiha as ''Terschia,'' ''Torsia'', and ''Tersigha.''Petersen, 2001, p293/ref> The King had initiated the settlement of Crusader (''Latin'', ''Frankish'') people in nearby Mi'ilya ("Castellum Regis"), and from there settlement spread out to Tarshiha. In 1160, ''Torsia'' and several surrounding villages were transferred to a Crusader named ''Iohanni de Caypha'' (Johannes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubya
Lubya ( "bean"), sometimes referred to as Lubia, Lubieh and Loubieh, was a Palestinian Arab town located ten kilometers west of Tiberias that was captured, ethnically cleansed, and destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War where its residents were forcefully evacuated and became refugees. Nearby villages included Nimrin to the north, Hittin to the northwest, and al-Shajara to the south; Each of those villages were also ethnically cleansed. Lubya had a total land area of 39,629 dunams (3,963ha), of which 83% was Palestinian-owned and the remainder public property. Most of its cultivable land was planted with cereals while only 1,500 dunams (150 ha) were planted with olive groves. The village's built-up area was 210 dunams (21 ha). History Archaeological excavations have revealed remains dating from the Roman era, second century BCE until the fifth century CE. The village was known as ''Lubia'' by the Crusaders and was a rest stop for Saladin's Ayyubid army prior to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Tira, Haifa
:''See Tira for other sites with similar names.'' al-Tira (, also called Tirat al-Lawz ("Tira of the almonds") or Tirat Haifa to distinguish it from other al- Tiras) was a Palestinian town located 7 kilometres south of Haifa. It was made up of five khirbets, including ''Khirbat al-Dayr'' where lie the ruins of St. Brocardus monastery and a cave complex with vaulted tunnels. The town’s inhabitants were ethnically cleansed during the nakba, and the Israeli town Tirat Carmel was founded on its lands in 1949. History Some scholars have suggested that the name Tireh reflects the town's history as the original location of Ancient Tyre. The Crusaders called al-Tira, St. Yohan de Tire, and in the thirteenth century the village contained a Greek Orthodox abbey of St. John the Baptist. In 1283 it was mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders, according to the hudna between the Crusaders and the Mamluk sultan Qalawun. Ottoman era In 1517 the village was incorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
