The Battle for the Galilee: Maronites and the Palestine Village of Jish during the 1948 War

This article explores one of the Galilee battles that took place during the 1948 War. During the Israeli ‘Operation Hiram' of October 1948 the IDF forces occupied large parts of the central Galilee including the Palestinian Arab village of Jish. Until October 1948 the majority of the population...

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1. VerfasserIn: ʿAbbāsī, Muṣṭafá 1962- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Univ. Press [2016]
In: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Jahr: 2016, Band: 15, Heft: 2, Seiten: 249-273
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
BJ Islam
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Maronites
B Arab Liberation Army
B Upper Galilee
B Jish
B British Mandate
B 1948 war
B Operation Hiram
B Israel
B Arabs in Israel
B Nakba
B Palestine
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Zusammenfassung:This article explores one of the Galilee battles that took place during the 1948 War. During the Israeli ‘Operation Hiram' of October 1948 the IDF forces occupied large parts of the central Galilee including the Palestinian Arab village of Jish. Until October 1948 the majority of the population of Jish was Muslim. Today the population is predominantly Maronite Catholic and Melkite Greek Catholic Christians, with a Muslim minority. However, unlike many of the destroyed Palestinian villages in this region, Jish managed to survive the Nakba despite the hard battle of Jish, although many of its Muslim inhabitants were driven out to Lebanon. It is interesting to observe that local Christian leaders successfully coped with a major military operation. The article gives us a new perspective based on original sources on what took place in the Galilee and on the fate of the local Arab (Muslim and Christian) population in this region.
ISSN:2054-1996
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3366/hlps.2016.0143