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00:00:00 - Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestinian villages

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Kull, Naʻīm (Resistance fighter); al-Zaghmūṭ, Ismāʻīl (Village leader); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); al-Yūnus, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Yūnus, Dīb Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥasan, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Zaynī, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Bombardment; Defense; Dispersion; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Expulsion; Guards; Gunshots; Home bombing; Military strategy; Murder; Population; Resistance; Seeking refuge; Terrorism; Trade; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

00:16:30 - al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Explosions; Fleas; Gunshots; Injuries; Mass murder; Medical aid; Medical doctors; Mines; Poets; Resistance; Shootings; Terrorism; Village occupation; War crimes; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

00:42:18 - Expulsion from al-Ṣafṣāf and journey to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Farhūd, Aḥmad Nimir (Resistance fighter); Kāyid, Aḥmad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr).

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Keywords: Economic aid; Elderly people; Family relations; Injuries; Mass graves; Medical aid; Medical doctors; Murder; Resistance; Shootings; Smuggling; Water resources; Zionist occupation; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

01:05:11 - Refugee experience in exile

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Saʻd Allāh al-Khalīl (Hospital).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Child killings; Death; Mass graves; Medical care; Medical doctors; Surgery; War crimes; Water resources; Women in armed conflicts; al-Mawāsī (Arab tribe); al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

01:17:08 - Education and economic conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Zaghmūṭ; Yūnus, Ḥamad; Yāsīn.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Ecole Des Frères (School).

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Keywords: Agriculture; British Mandate of Palestine 1922-1948; British police forces; Elementary schools; Haifa (Palestine); Landowners; Peasant workers; Ports; Rural life; Socio-economic conditions; Threshing; Trade; Work; al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

01:28:02 - Political conditions and Zionist occupation

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Brutal treatment; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion; Haifa (Palestine); Hebrew; House raid; Injuries; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Rifles; Shootings; Village occupation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation

01:44:12 - Social and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shraynī, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Shūlī, Ḥannah (Flour mill owner); ʻAzzām, ʻAlī (Flour mill owner).

Families: Yūnus.

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Bridal customs; Children's games; Clothing and dresses; Construction; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Disputes; Dowry; Embroidery; Entertainment; Grooms; Harvesters; Hospitality; Housing; Intervillage relations; Islamic marriage; Olive oil mills; Proverbs; Safad (Palestine); Sewing; Sūq; Threshing; Wedding customs; Women in agriculture; al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine); ʻĪd celebrations

02:06:01 - Living conditions during the British Mandate of Palestine 1920-1948

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Partial Transcript: Families: Yūnus; Ḥamad.

Significant Figures: Yūnus, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Martyr); Swaydī, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Martyr).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Kamān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British Army; British colonization; British police forces; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Employment; Farming practices; Germans; Health services; Home demolition; Irrigation; Land sale; Landowners; Mines; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Persecution; Professions; Religious ceremonies; Resistance; Revolutionary leadership; Schools; Socio-economic conditions; Tobacco industry; Village siege; Waldheim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Water resources; Weapon acquisition; al-Kammān (Arab tribe); al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

02:29:37 - Final reflections on life in pre-Nakba Palestine

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Attack; British Mandate of Palestine 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Haifa (Palestine); Hospitality; Interpersonal relations; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Persecution; Ports; Trade; Weapons confiscation; World War, 1939-1945