Lifta was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist paramilitary forces during the 1948 Palestine war.
Depopulated homes of the village of Lifta
Lifta in relation to Jerusalem in the 1870s
Zionists committed a number of acts of political violence in support of establishing and maintaining a Jewish state in Palestine. These actions have been carried out by individuals, paramilitary group
Lifta
…Lifta (Arabic: لفتا; Hebrew: ליפתא) was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist paramilitary forces during the 1948 Palestine war. During the Ottoman period, the village was recorded to have a population of 400 Arabs, all Muslim households. In…
Aftermath of the King David Hotel bombing, blown up by the Irgun after Operation Agatha in 1946
Zionist leaders arrested in Operation Agatha amid attacks by the Jewish Resistance Movement in the insurgency against the British. Left to right: David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, Halperin.
British sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice kidnapped and hanged by the Zionist paramilitary organization Irgun in 1947.
Israeli soldiers with detained Palestinian women and children in Tantura on May 23 1948, the date of the Tantura massacre.