• the Arab inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Hawsha, which was depopulated in 1948, kept a shrine named for the prophet Joshua?

Facts on topics related to Hawsha

Lajjun

• local legend in Lajjun, a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids, held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?

Ayn Ghazal

• the destruction of Ayn Ghazal by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was condemned by Count Bernadotte?

Bashshit

• a 1999 excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority inside a sewer pipe in the depopulated Arab village of Bashshit revealed ceramic remains dating back to the Early Islamic period?

Nuris

• the Palestinian villages of Nuris and Zikrin were depopulated in the 1948 Palestine War?