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The Arab villages lost since Israel's war of independence - interactive

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Changing landscape: click through the sequence of maps to show how hundreds of Arab villages and towns were abandoned, attacked and de-populated during Israel's war of independence in 1948 – which is still remembered by Palestinians as their catastrophe or Nakba

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