Mi’ar

Mi’ar was a Palestinian village located 17.5 Km east of Acre’ populated by 770 people. The village was a centre of Palestinian rebel operations during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British rule and consequently the village was dynamited by the British. Mi’ar was later restored, but it was ethnically cleansed by the Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Jewish war. The jewish settlements named Ya’ad,  Misgav, and Manof were built on former village land, and was planted with pine trees  by the Jewish National fund so to hide the remaining ruins of the village. The cemetery is the only thing that witness the existence of Mi'ar.

Bike hikers came to participate in the Nakba memorial day, digital inject print, 5760 × 3240, 2018

Uprooted former Mi’ar residents and their descendants mingling, digital inject print, 5760 × 3840, 2018

Meeting in the village cemetery, the only place left in the village. digital inject print, 5760 × 3840, 2018

Elderly and children take part in the Nakba memorial day. digital inject print, 5760 × 3840, 2018

Men cleaning and gathering the scattered stones that mark the graves, digital inject print, 5760 × 3840, 2018

An assembly in which former residents talk about the inevitable right of return, digital inject print, 5760 × 3840, 2018

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