Palestinian villages commemorated on Google maps

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Palestinian surfer marks locations of hundreds of Arab villages that existed before 1948 war on Google Earth map

Gal Mor


Google Earth, Google's three-dimensional geographic software, allows users to go on a world trip and search for data and images from space or from the nearest street corner.

One of the service's most significant features enables surfers to add their own comments to certain locations and provide other users with updated information about them.

A surfer who calls himself Tamin Derby, and who claims to reside in Jenin, has documented in recent months for Google Earth hundreds of Palestinian villages that vanished from the face of the earth in 1948. Some were replaced by new Israeli communities and towns.

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Derby documented on Israel's map in Google Earth hundreds of ruined villages in their original location, and also added links to the Nakba website.

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