Return to Tantura: Remembering the Palestinian massacre

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Al-Araby

In February, Zochrot (which means “remembering” in Hebrew), an Israeli NGO which educates on the Nakba and the right of return, arranged an educational tour of the site of the depopulated Palestinian village of Tantura, which used to lie on the coast south of Haifa, to the west of Furaydis village. The tour aims to promote awareness of Tantura’s history and the massacre which was carried out against the village inhabitants by Israeli forces immediately after the State of Israel was established. Tantura’s population was 1,720 before the Nakba, and the village agricultural lands amounted to 14,0…