battle", according to Haganah accounts. Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. On August 20, 1948, Ben-Gurion together with Yehoshua Eshel, presented a plan for 32 new Jewish settlements on newly depopulated Palestinian villages, with a settlement named Otzem or Komemiyut proposed for Karatiyya. Three villages were eventually founded on village land; Komemiyut in 1950 and Revaha in 1953, close to the village site. Nehora, established in 1956, is partly on village land, and partly on land belonging to al-Faluja. The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described Karatiyya in 1992: "Piles of debris are scattered on the site, and a destroyed cemetery (partially hidden among eucalyptus trees) can be seen. An agricultural road runs through it. Grain and alfalfa are grown by Israeli farmers on the site and surrounding lands." See also Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel References Bibliography External links Welcome To Karatiyya Karatiyya, Zochrot Survey of Western Palestine, Map 20: IAA, Wikimedia commons Karatiyya, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Gaza