Ghassan Kanafani, The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine (London: The Tricontinental Society, 1980), 62, ➝.
Mohammed Haddad, “Nakba Day: What Happened in Palestine in 1948?,” Al Jazeera, January 10, 2024, ➝.
“Crisis in Gaza: What to Know and How to Help,” Crisis in Gaza: What to Know and How to Help, International Rescue Committee, October 24, 2025, ➝.
These plans resemble settler-colonial practices of creating a tabula rasa, which violently clear spaces to impose and enforce an out-of-context model of “modernization” while erasing the local population and denying their agency in shaping their city and its suspended future.
Kanafani, The 1936–39 Revolt in Palestine, 64.
“Gaza: Destruction of Vital Lifting Gear Halts Search for Thousands Buried Under Rubble,” UN News, April 22, 2025, ➝.
Yasmin Emara, testimony sent to the author on November 20, 2025, and translated from Arabic by the author.
