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. In September of the same year the Israeli forces bulldozed the village, leaving it in ruins, and planted a forest of European pines to conceal its existence. That night in bed, safe in David’s arms, I told him about the screams I heard in Qula.
