Palestinian Villages Hidden Under Israeli Forests

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, PALESTINE - ISRAEL, SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 30 Oct 2017

Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service

Saffuriya was one of more than 500 Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948, during the Nakba. Journalist Jonathan Cook explains how Israel quickly acted to raze the villages so the 750,000 refugees could not return and then covered up these war crimes by planting forests over the ruins.

Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001. He is the author of: Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish State (2006); Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (2008); and Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. The same year, Project Censored voted one of Jonathan’s reports, “Israel brings Gaza entry restrictions to West Bank”, the ninth most important story censored in 2009-10.

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One Response to “Palestinian Villages Hidden Under Israeli Forests”

1. Tarud says:

   22 Jan 2018 at 14:26

   And what about the facts???
   https://tarud.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/the-palestinian-refugees-deception1.pdf