If I know that my love Waller Palestine is a crime that I Flischdalm criminals
I'm lawyer fahed alkamook
Son of a Palestinian refugee camp diaspora will not accept the right of return without the right of my grandparents and my right, the right of my children

dear madame, sir, since i am living close to beith jiz, i would like to inform you that your information about the houses today is wrong. there are three houses left, two of them are empty. there are used from time to time for movie-shooting or dance-performances. the third house has been renovated and is now rented to somebody. best wishes, susanne knaul

Dear people of Bayt Jiz,
I am a member of a small but growing Israeli organization called Zochrot, which is learning and teaching about Al-Nakba in hebrew to Israelis today.
We started working with our Palestinian friends, from the destroyed villages and towns of Palestine, in mid-2002.
We mostly go on guided tours to the locations of the destroyed villages and post signs on their remainings in order to bring back the silenced past.

We are now checking the possibility to visit the village of Bayt Jiz in the coming months (sometime before April 2004).
We are looking for partners who can help us in learning about the village and its story and to help us do something to bring some life to the remainins.
I would thank all of you if you could guide us in getting some materials or any other help in that matter.
Thank you and may we meet soon in your rebuilt village.

Hello all,

I, too, come from Bayt Jiz. I have been able to visit there a few times with my father, who left it when he was 8. He still remembers details about the daily lives of our family members, who owned most of the land there. He told me stories about going to Dair El-Hawa, which is another town of ours that lies atop a mountain close to Beit Lahem, which we also got to visit. Today, the Zionist invadors grow cotton and fruits in the fertile land of Bayt Jeez, while Dair El-Hawa centers a beautiful park used by those Zionists as a recreational area. All is left today of the old villages are a couple of houses built by my grandparents just before they were forced out along with everyone else who lived there, and the school mentioned by Mr. Khaldi.

I wanted to thank everyone who worked on this site, and to assure everyone that we will NEVER forget Palestine. We will all work day and night towards the day when we will be able to eat figs and cactus from the trees of Bayt Jeez and the rest of the villages, where those trees refused to cease, and are today the main marks that show a Palestinian village once existed around them. That day will come soon inshallah.

Basim

Salam to all the Palestinians.
Beit Jeiz is the place where I came from, although I have never been there unfortuantely. But my grandmother "mercy upon her" used to tell me about it and about my grandfather "Mahmoud Saleh" who was the Sheik in Beit Jeiz.

I would like to thank all the people who worked on this great job in creating such wonderful site to collect all the places in Palestine, so when I will tell my children in future about their land I would surf online and show them their real originality and nationality.

Allah bless you all.
and inshallah we will be back one day soon..