Kiryat Shmona: A Settlement Built on the Ruins of the Palestinian Town of Khalisa

It’s sad that Wikipedia plays a role in the deception!

The occupied village of Khalisa, northern Palestine (source: Palestine Remembered)

When you google “Kiryat Shmona”, the first page that would come up is its Wikipedia page and it would read:

Kiryat Shmona (Hebrew: קִרְיַת שְׁמוֹנָה, lit. Town of the Eight) is a city in the Northern District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley near the Lebanese border. The city was named after the eight people, including Joseph Trumpeldor, who died in 1920 in the Battle of Tel Hai.

In 2022 it had a population of 22,492,[1] the majority of whom are Jews, particularly of Moroccan descent. Located near the Israel–Lebanon border, Kiryat Shmona is Israel’s northernmost city.

And when you scroll down read further:

The town of Kiryat Shmona was established in 1949[2] on the site of the former Palestinian village al-Khalisa, whose inhabitants had fled after Safed was taken by the Haganah during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and an attempt by the village to come to an agreement with the Jewish authorities was rejected.

Such a great deception! Thank you, Wikipedia! Now, let’s put the narrative of the thieves in the garbage can…