Oral History of Palestinian Villages Destroyed by the Israeli Occupation in 1948: Al-Tantora Village as a Model

Abstract

The study aims to identify the Palestinian village of Tantura, expose the Israeli narratives about the massacres of the destroyed Palestinian villages, and show the importance of oral documentation of Palestinian history.

The study used many approaches, including: the descriptive analytical approach through sorting and analyzing what was collected in order to form the study material, and extrapolating, tracing and collecting what was narrated about the village of Tantora.

The study reached several results, including: the Tantoura massacre was a model of the ugliness of what happened in the 1948 AD. The people of Tantoura defended their country and did not surrender it until after numerous clashes between them and the Jews, where no bullets or weapons remained with the villagers, and a large number of them were killed. That is, the Arabs defended their village bitterly, until it fell into the hands of the Jews.

The study also made several recommendations, including: Documenting oral narrations from the elderly before they died, to refute the saying of a land without a people for a people without a land, and to prove the rights of the Palestinians in it.