found our village on a map of all the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 by Israeli forces. Its name was Qula, spelled also as Cola, or Chola, a Palestinian village dating from the time of the Crusades. By the twentieth century Qula had about 1,200 inhabitants. It had been a substantial village. It had a mosque, several small shops, and a school. The village grew grains and the land that was irrigated was used for orchards. On July 10, 1948, in a systematic campaign to depopulate the villages of Palestine to achieve the Zionist dream, Israeli armed forces drove out the villagers of Qula.
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