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Palestinian village depopulated in 1948 Not to be confused with Khirbet et-Tantura . Place in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine Tantura ( Arabic : الطنطورة , al-Tantura , lit. The Peak ; Hebrew and Phoenician : דור, Dor ) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel . Near the village lie the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor . The village stood on a low limestone hill overlooking the shoreline of two small bays. The water was supplied from a well in the eastern part of the village. The al-Bab gate was in the southeast of the village. The Roman ruins were on the coast to the north with the hill of Umm Rashid to the south. In 1945 it had a population of 1,490. The village was targeted in the early stages of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , with its houses looted and its Arab Palestinian inhabitants expelled and others massacred by the Palmach underground Alexandroni Brigade . The Tantura massacre was first documented by a Palestinian politician in 1951, decades before a 2022 Israeli documentary revealed testimony from several IDF veterans affirming that a massacre, involving somewhere between several to 200 Palestinian victims, had taken place at that time.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
former Arab villages in Palestine Tantura ( , al-Tantura , lit. The Peak ) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel . It was built on the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor .
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former Arab villages in Palestine Tantura ( , al-Tantura , lit. The Peak ; Hebrew and Phoenician : דור, Dor ) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel . It was built on the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor . In 1945 it had a population of 1,490.
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Place in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine Tantura ( , al-Tantura , lit. The Peak ; Hebrew and Phoenician : דור, Dor ) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine . It was built on the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor . In 1945 it had a population of 1,490.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Palestinian village depopulated in 1948 Not to be confused with Khirbet et-Tantura . Place in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine Tantura ( , al-Tantura , lit. The Peak ; Hebrew and Phoenician : דור, Dor ) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel . Near the village, lies ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor .The village stood on a low limestone hill overlooking the shoreline of two small bays.The water was supplied from a well in the eastern part of the village.The al-Bab gate was in the southeast of the village.The Roman ruins were on the coast to the north with the hill of Umm Rashid to the south. In 1945 it had a population of 1,490. The village was targeted in the early stages of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , with its houses looted and its Arab Palestinian inhabitants expelled and others massacred by the Palmach underground Alexandroni Brigade .The Tantura massacre was first documented by a Palestinian politician in 1951, decades before a 2022 Israeli documentary revealed testimony from several IDF veterans affirming that a massacre, involving somewhere between several to 200 Palestinian victims, had taken place at that time.
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palestinian arab fishing village located 8 kilometers northwest of zikhron ya'akov on the mediterranean coast o
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palestinian arab fishing village located 8 kilometers
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