with my nakba posts, here’s some website recommendations if you want to learn on the history of specific depopulated palestinian areas:
- palestine remembered is probably the most famous and comprehensive website with full documentations of former locations and depopulated villages. it also lists information on palestinian refugee camps, guestbooks, and the ability to upload pictures. information on each village varies.
- zochrot is an organization dedicated to teaching both palestinians and israelis about the 1948 nakba (which is not covered well if at all in israeli schools, as you can probably imagine), which includes documenting information on villages and even an app. information on each village varies.
- the interactive encyclopedia for the palestinian question’s places page has some detailed histories and a map as well, but doesn’t go into the detail of the last two sites, and doesn’t have pictures or sources.
- many villages also have their own websites, and many of them are also in english (for example, the one i linked for kafr bir'im). honestly just look up (village name) + website and if it’s there you’ll find it.
- wikipedia also has surprisingly comprehensive coverage of the villages, the articles include a little more of the “war” background than the other websites do.
- all that remains: the palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by israel in 1948 is a famous book by palestinian historian walid khalidi which gives a detailed account of what became of 400 different depopulated palestinian villages. it was released in 1992, so it’s not current, but many of the things he wrote still hold.
Paleopenmaps.org also has information about the current status of villages, as well as comparisons of maps throughout the ages