Thread by @JehadAbusalim

The Nakba in photographs: a thread.

After Zionist militias seized Palestinians' homes in al-Ramleh, they separated the men from women and children, and held men behind barbed wire detention camps without basic human rights. Government reports documented incidents of rape and looting in al-Ramleh.

📷Beno Rothenberg

The men in al-Ramleh, confined behind barbed wire, endured hunger & thirst in July's scorching heat, sleeping on the ground without blankets. The Zionist militias occasionally provided water rations, which were distributed by the younger children & siblings of the imprisoned men.

These Palestinians, prior to their expulsion as refugees, bore witness to the seizure and looting of their homes, and endured separation from their families. These men and their families experienced weeks or even months of separation before eventually reuniting in refugee camps.

A Zionist soldier with a repulsive colonial attitude distributes food to hungry Palestinian children in Bir al-Sabi'. These children did not know they were about to face expulsion, which would condemn them to a lifetime as refugees.

The dome of the mosque at al-Majdal, a haunting reminder of the Nakba. Zionist militias, during that time, decimated around 100 mosques across historic Palestine.

Amidst the ruins of Saris village, where this bomb-ravaged house stood, Israel erected a controversial "martyr's forest," ostensibly intended as a memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims (!).

A Jewish family from Romania settling in the village of Tarshiha following the displacement of Palestinians from their homes.

Remember the women and men who, after being separated from the detained men in barbed wire detention camps, here they are, in the streets of al-Ramle, awaiting expulsion.

The expulsion of the people of al-Tantura following the harrowing massacre that Zionist militias committed in the village.

Zionist settlers occupying and taking over the Palestinian village of Salama.

Zionists seizing control of a Palestinian shop in Jerusalem, boldly asserting ownership by spray-painting "a Jewish shop" in Hebrew on the wall, thereby usurping the premises from its expelled owners.

A Jewish family "moving into" a house owned by a Palestinian family in the village of Deir Yassin, the site of a brutal massacre where Zionist militias mercilessly murdered over 100 Palestinians two months prior.

The photographs can be found in Ariella Azoulay's "From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950"

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