# List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict

Below is a list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Arab–Israeli conflict.

## 1880–1946
### Arab villages

A number of these villages, those in the Jezreel Valley, were inhabited by tenants of land which was sold by a variety of owners, some local and others absentee landlord families, such as the Karkabi, Tueini, Farah and Khuri families and Sursock family of Lebanon. In some cases land was sold directly by local fellahim (peasant owners). The sale of land to Jewish organizations meant that tenant farmers were displaced.
List of Palestinian villages from which tenant farmers were uprooted before 1948, with the cause of the uprooting (i.e., sale by landlord or some other cause) given along with the name of Jewish settlements on newly acquired land (in parentheses) can be seen below.

### Jewish villages
#### 1929 Palestine riots

During the 1929 Palestine riots:

#### 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine:
* Kfar Shiloah
* Silwan Jewish population removed by the Kehillah Welfare Bureau and later the British authorities during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
* Kfar Etzion
* Hebron

## 1948 Arab–Israeli War
### Arab villages

Palestinian Arab residents were expelled from hundreds of towns and villages by the Israel Defense Forces, or fled in fear as the Israeli army advanced. Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated.

### Jewish villages

The main Jewish areas depopulated in 1948 were the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion. Approximately 30-40km$^2$ of land was owned by Jews in the areas which became the West Bank and Gaza Strip (approximately 6,000km$^2$); some of this land was uninhabited.

#### In areas that became the West Bank

* North Jerusalem bloc (Atarot and Neve Yaakov)
* Dead Sea block (Kalia and Beit HaArava)
* Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)
* Gush Etzion bloc near Jerusalem (Ein Tzurim, Kfar Etzion, Masuot Yitzhak, Revadim)

#### In areas that became Gaza Strip (All-Palestine protectorate)

* Kfar Darom (resettled but evacuated as part of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005)

#### Israel-Syria border

* Hauran

#### In Transjordan

* Tel Or
Many of these areas were repopulated after the Six-Day War.

## Six-Day War
### West Bank

Three Arab villages, Bayt Nuba, Imwas and Yalo, located in the Latrun Corridor were destroyed on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin due to the corridor's strategic location and route to Jerusalem and because of the residents' alleged aiding of Egyptian commandos in their attack on the city of Lod. The residents of the three villages were offered compensation but were not allowed to return.
Hebron/Bethlehem area
* Surit
* Beit Awwa
* Beit Mirsem
* Shuyoukh
Jordan Valley
* al-Jiftlik (depopulated but soon repopulated)
* Agarith
* Huseirat
Jerusalem area
* Nabi Samwil
In the Negev/Sinai Desert
* Auja al-Hafir – A demilitarized zone

### Golan Heights

Over 100,000 Golan Heights residents were evacuated from about 25 villages whether on orders of the Syrian government or through fear of an attack by the Israeli Defense Forces and expulsion after the ceasefire. During the following months, more than a hundred Syrian villages were destroyed by Israel.

## 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty
### Israeli settlements

Israeli settlements in the Sinai Peninsula were evacuated as a result of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
* Avshalom
* Dikla
* Netiv HaAsara, Sinai
* Ofira
* Pri'el
* Sufa
* Talmei Yosef
* Yamit

## Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

As a part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, 21 civilian Israeli settlements were forcibly evacuated, as well as an area in the northern West Bank containing four Israeli villages. The residential buildings were razed by Israel but public structures were left intact. The religious structures not removed by Israel were later destroyed by Palestinians.

### Israeli settlements

In the Gaza Strip (all 21 settlements, as well as 1 Bedouin village): :
| Bedolah Bnei Atzmon (Atzmona) Dahaniyya (Bedouin) Dugit Elei Sinai Gadid Gan Or | Ganei Tal Katif Kfar Darom Kfar Yam Kerem Atzmona Morag | Neveh Dekalim Netzarim Netzer Hazani Nisanit Pe'at Sade Rafiah Yam | Slav Shirat Hayam Tel Katifa |
| In the West Bank (4 settlements): |||
| Kadim | Ganim | Homesh | Sa-Nur |

## Since 2005

On 5 November 2020, Israeli bulldozers demolished most of the village of Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa and forced 73 of its Palestinian residents, including 41 children to leave in what was the largest demolition in years. On 4 February 2021, Israel razed for the second time because of what it claimed was an illegal settlement next to a military firing range. On 7 July 2021, it was demolished by Israel again for at least the third time.
In May 2023, the Israeli army destroyed the village of Ein Samiya, forcibly expelling 170 people.