Declassified: Israel Made Sure Arabs Couldn't Return to Their Villages
https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israel-lifted-military-rule-over-arabs-in-1966-only-after-ensuring-they-couldn-t-ret-1.7297983?fbclid=IwAR20epU4Cd4NxItKgfH5mAeYECj8dP5893hhGDpwTpYBiSEPNn4w4e56Klw
Trove of archival documents reveals how Israel prevented Arabs from returning to villages they had left in 1948 – chiefly, by razing structures and planting dense forests