What are these maps, why did I create this website?
I live in the Galilee. Only in recent years I started to grasp the extend of what the zionist movement has done here in Palestine, and is still doing today. I started to learn about the Nakba, and I participated in excursions organized by
zochrot.org, and I am learning a lot from their website, which also pointed me to the 1:20,000 topographical maps.
I started collecting maps of Palestine, as it was before the Nakba, and I was stunned by the detailed topographical information clearly showing the hundreds of villages and towns that existed here, not long ago, and are today destroyed and wiped from the map. I feel that this mapping material is very strong and very important information.
Browsing individual map sheets is very inconvenient, so I spent a lot of effort to combine the sheets into one big mosaic-like map covering the whole of Palestine.
The main purpose of this website is to publish these maps, and make them easily accessible.
I hope to add some more maps and perhaps also aerial photos to this site
