Fighters in the Haganah, the pre-state Zionist paramilitary group, get a lesson in topography, near Sheikh Bureik in Northern Palestine. December 24, 1938. Government Press Office (GPO)
Colonization: British and Zionist flags fly over a Palestinian village. Photo taken between 1898 and 1930. Source: G. Eric and Edith Matson Collection
Hashahar, the founder of the Palmach's "Arab Department" in disguise. Photo: Yeruham Cohen, 1948. Palmach Archive
April 22, 1948. Destruction of Haifa by the Hagannah during their Operation Bi'ur Hametz. The objective of the operation was the capture of the Palestinian neighborhoods of Haifa. Photo by John Philips for LIFE Magazine
220 Palestinian buildings were destroyed in Haifa's old city during the bombing of Haifa, which occurred over a 3 day period. April, 1948. Jim Pringle, Associated Press
Zionist forces walk the streets during the Battle of Haifa. April 22, 1948. The Archive of the IDF
Yiftach Brigade of the Palmach Zionist militia with their Hotchkiss machine guns during Operation Yiftach to take over the city of Safed, April and May, 1948
Zionist forces occupy the Palestinian village of al-Majdal on February 26, 1949. An Israel flag is planted on a former Palestinian municipal building. Courtesy of Palestine Remembered
Yitzhak Pundak, during his command of the 53rd Battalion of the Givati Brigade. Photo by David Rubin. Palmach Archive
Orphaned survivors from the massacre in Deir Yassin by Zionist militia on April 9, 1948. Source: Dar el-Tifl
Women and children of Tantura being forced out of their village, by bus and on foot. Hundreds of Tantura's men were massacred or sent to labor camps. May, 1948. Benno Rothenberg
Villagers from Wadi Hunayn, near Ramle, being expelled. April, 1948. Courtesy of Palestine Remembered
United Nations soldier looks on as Palestinians are trucked out of their homes in al-Falluja. April, 1949. Courtesy of Palestine Remembered
UN overseeing the expulsion of Palestinians from their village of al-Falluja. Spring, 1949. Courtesy of Firas Alsaafin via Palestine Remembered
Thousands of Palestinians were initially displaced to the Beach Camp in Gaza. Here they flee for a second time, boarding boats to Lebanon or Egypt,1949. Photo by Hrant Nakashian. UNRWA Archive
Zionist militia looting Palestinian homes in Haifa. April, 1948. Fred Chesnik. Jewish National Fund Archive
Zionist leader David Ben Gurion, left, reading Israel's Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv. He was to become Israel's first Prime Minister. Zoltan Kluger for the Government Press Office (GPO, via Getty Images)
Thousands of Palestinians took refugee in olive groves as they fled in terror from their villages during the Nakba, 1948. This image was taken by Palestinian photographer Ali Zaarour
The women and children of Tantura being rounded-up before expulsion. May 1948. IDF Archive
The Palestinian village of Iraq al-Manshiyya in the Gaza District of historic Palestine being ethnically cleansed of its inhabitants in Spring, 1949. Courtesy of Palestine Remembered