Editing Israeli settlement (section)

== Resettlement of former Jewish communities ==
Some settlements were established on sites where Jewish communities had existed during the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] or even since the [[First Aliyah]] or ancient times.<ref>"Twenty-three Jewish settlements werde destroyed during the 1948 fighting. Arab forces ... held onto the remains ... and the land on which they had stood was incorporated into the West Bank and Gaza after the war. These were ..."  ''A list of these settlements follows.''  ({{Cite book|last=Fischbach|first=Michael R.|title=Jewish Property Claims against Arab Countries|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press, New York|isbn=978-0-231-13538-2|page=109}} (= Fischbach)) (Another list at p. 84.)</ref>
* [[Golan Heights]] – [[Bnei Yehuda, Golan Heights|Bnei Yehuda]], founded in 1890,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Martin|title=The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict|year=1996|publisher=Routledge London|isbn=978-0-415-15130-6|page=3 ("Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1880–1914")}} (= Gilbert)</ref> abandoned because of Arab attacks in 1920, rebuilt near the original site in 1972.
* [[Jerusalem]] – Jewish presence alongside other peoples since biblical times, various surrounding communities and neighborhoods, including Kfar Shiloah, also known as [[Silwan]]—settled by Yemenite Jews in 1884, Jewish residents evacuated in 1938, a few Jewish families move into reclaimed homes in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/silwan-settlers-plan-passover-festival-in-bid-to-curry-favor-with-public-1.265181|title=Silwan settlers plan Passover festival in bid to curry favor with public|newspaper=Haaretz|access-date=28 July 2016|date=23 March 2010|last1=Hasson|first1=Nir|last2=Kyzer|first2=Liel|archive-date=13 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413120946/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/silwan-settlers-plan-passover-festival-in-bid-to-curry-favor-with-public-1.265181|url-status=live}}</ref> Other communities: [[Shimon HaTzadik]], [[Neve Yaakov]] and [[Atarot]] which in post-1967 was rebuilt as an industrial zone.
* [[Gush Etzion]] – four communities, established between 1927 and 1947, destroyed 1948, reestablished beginning 1967.<ref>{{cite journal |jstor=4283758|title=Symbolism and Landscape: The Etzion Bloc in the Judean Mountains|first1=Yossi|last1=Katz|first2=John C.|last2=Lehr|date=1 January 1995|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=31|issue=4|pages=730–743|doi=10.1080/00263209508701077}}</ref>
* [[Hebron]] – Jewish presence since biblical times, forced out in the wake of the [[1929 Hebron massacre]], some families returned in 1931 but were evacuated by the British, a few buildings resettled since 1967.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/issues/1683017.stm|title=The hostility of Hebron|date=18 February 2003|work=BBC News|access-date=28 July 2016|archive-date=18 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618203415/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/issues/1683017.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Dead Sea]], northern area – [[Kalia, West Bank|Kalia]] and [[Beit HaArava]] – the former was built in 1934 as a [[kibbutz]] for [[potash]] mining. The latter was built in 1943 as an agricultural community. Both were abandoned in 1948, and subsequently destroyed by [[Arab Legion|Jordanian forces]],<ref>Gilbert, p.45 ("The Arab Invasion of the State of Israel")</ref> and resettled after the Six-Day War.
* [[Gaza City]] had a Jewish community for many centuries that was evacuated following riots in 1929.<ref>Gilbert, p.2 ("The Jews of Palestine 636 A.D. to 1880), p.3 ("1880 – 1914") and p.17 ("Riots in Palestine 1921 – 1947")</ref> After the Six-Day War, Jewish communities weren't built in Gaza City, but in [[Gush Katif]] in the southwestern part of the Gaza Strip, f.e. [[Kfar Darom]] – established in 1946, evacuated in 1948 after an Egyptian attack,<ref>Fischbach, p.87</ref> resettled in 1970, evacuated in 2005 as part of the [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan|withdrawal]] from the [[Gaza Strip]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/seventeen-gaza-settlements-evacuated|title=Seventeen Gaza Settlements Evacuated|date=18 August 2005|publisher=Fox News|access-date=28 July 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026105301/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166162,00.html|archive-date=26 October 2012}}</ref>