Anyone who believes Palestinians can surrender, submit to the Zionist Herrenrasse and just live happily ever after under the Israeli boot, please read this tweet.
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Anyone who believes Palestinians can surrender, submit to the Zionist
Herrenrasse and just live happily ever after under the Israeli boot, please read this tweet.
On May 27, 1948, the Palestinian village of Zarnuqa, near the Jewish settlement of Rehovot, was captured by Haganah forces. Several weeks earlier, the mukhtar (headman) of Zarnuqa had announced that the village wished to surrender, together with several neighboring villages. The village was considered "Zionist-friendly", and many of its residents worked in Jewish-owned citrus groves.
In several cases during the 1947-1948 clashes, residents of Zarnuqa even forcibly prevented Arab fighters from entering the village and using it as a base of operations.
On Lag BaOmer 5708 (1948), the village was attacked by forces of the Givati Brigade, who shelled it with mortars and then entered. The events of the conquest were described in a letter later sent to the editorial board of the Zionist "leftist" newspaper Al HaMishmar, published by Mapam Party:
"A soldier told me how one of the troops opened a door and fired his Sten [gun] at an old Arab man, an old woman, and a child in one burst; how they took the Arabs […] out of all the houses and made them stand outside in the sun, hungry and thirsty the whole day, until they would bring 40 rifles […] The Arabs claimed they had none. In the end they were expelled from the village toward Yibna"
According to the writer, the expelled villagers protested that they were being driven out to their "anti-Zionist Arab enemies" in Yibna, but their protest was in vain, and the villagers were forced to leave, weeping and shouting. The next day, Zarnuqa residents tried to return to their village, reporting that the townspeople of Yibna had driven them out, calling them "incorrigible traitors unworthy of hospitality."
Those who returned had to watch as soldiers and Jewish civilians from nearby settlements looted and vandalized their homes, from which they had been expelled just the previous day. Afterward, the villagers were expelled once again. The houses of the village were demolished in the following month.
According to a Haganah report, six residents were killed during the capture of the village, including two women and a little girl. Twenty-two were taken prisoner. As noted, the village had surrendered without a fight.
About two weeks after the capture of Zarnuqa, Al HaMishmar published a column criticizing the uprooting of the Arabs, and especially the lack of distinction between "friends" and "enemies":
"One Arab village lies near Rehovot — it is Zarnuga [sic]. This village refrained from hostile actions against the Jews… How is it possible, then, that towards such a village the Haganah behaved as it did towards the enemy village of Yibna?"
On the eve of its destruction, about 2,700 people lived in Zarnuqa. Most of them eventually reached the Gaza Strip as refugees.
In 1949, the Zarnuqa Ma'abara (transit camp for Jewish immigrants) was established on the site of the village, which was later incorporated into the city of Rehovot. Today, the area is part of the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood. Most of Kiryat Moshe's residents are Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia and ex-USSR countries.
In the photos:
1. 1940s map of Zarnuqa
2. Zarnuqa in 1935, from the JNF Archive
3. Palestine Post, May 28, 1948
4. Remains of a mosque in Zarnuqa, nowadays inside the Jewish city of Rehovot, 2016, from Wikipedia
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