Origin: Israel | Documentary | Director: Raneen Jeries | 14 minutes

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Manshiyya

Raneen Jeries 2010 docu 14 min.

Established in the late 1870s, the neighbourhood of Manshiyya lay to the northeast of the Palestinian city of Yaffa (Jaffa). By 1944, the neighbourhood was home to some 12,000 Palestinians as well as 1,000 Jews.
It was well known locally for its Cafe Al Ansharah, a prominent meeting place for public officials, political leaders, and businessmen. But due to its location north of Jaffa's centre, and hence between that town and Tel Aviv, Manshiyya soon become a target for Zionist military and expulsion plans, its ethnic cleansing commencing in April 1948, with Palestinian inhabitants expelled to Jordan as well as Gaza and Egypt. Continuing her series of oral history films produced with Zochrot, this short film by Raneen Jeries documents the testimonies of Saleh Masri and Iftikhar Turk, two internally displaced Palestinian refugees from pre1948 Manshiyya.

This documentary short features oral history testimonies of two Palestinians who were “internally displaced” in 1948 from the al-Manshiyya quarter in the northeastern sector of the Palestinian city of Yaffa (Jaffa), which was the largest urban center in pre-1948 Palestine.

Founded in the 1830s, by 1944, al-Manshiyya had grown to about 13,000 residents, of whom around 1,000 were Jewish and the rest Arab. Al-Manshiyya’s location – between Jaffa center to its south and Tel Aviv to its north – made it a target for an ethnic cleansing operation from April 25 to 29, 1948 by the Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL), and a subsequent Israeli government decision to destroy the entire quarter in September 1948. Today, the only surviving structure is the Hasan Bek mosque; the rest of the quarter has been turned into a promenade.

https://zochrot.org/en/video/49672

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