Written by / Malak Moatz
Tantura was a small Palestinian village located at the south of Haifa on the map.
Until 1948, it’s population was about 1,500 Palestinian, Who depended on fishing and farming.
It was a very quiet,small,and beautiful village. Despite this,
the victims who immigrated to Syria or most of the cities around Tantura do not know where their ancestors were buried.
You will learn the details later.
After the Nakba and for 50 years, approximately until 19th century nothing was said about Tantura in Israel,
other than being a village that witnessed a ” battle” in the war of independence between Israelis and Arabs ,
and the Israelis won the battle, and these Arabs immigrated from the village and went to the nearby village of Al-Faradis.
And then the settlers established Kibbutz Nahaholim there.
That situation remained until 1998,when an Israeli student at the University of Haifa published his master’s thesis.
This student was called Teddy Katz ,while he was preparing his research, he sat with a number of old soliders from a military brigade of the Israeli army called the Alexandroni Bridge, they were the ones responsible for entering Tantura on May 22, 1948. With their testimonies, Katz discovered that the battle was not actually a real battle , that clash wasn’t a battle
between two armies or two armed parties, despite the villagers’ attempts to resist,
they were poolry armed and had little experience in fighting, so the battle ended before it even started.
The families’ surrender after their defeat , wasn’t an escape from the death, in fact it was the beginning of a massacre.
المزيد
إرث الوعي الصامت: ماذا نترك في حقائب صغارنا النفسية؟
كيفية التعامل مع “ألم الروح” والإسعاف النفسي الأولي
العُمر يُقاس بالسنين.. أما العقل فيُقاس بالوعي