[Ha'aretz] Danny Rubinstein - Although Nasrallah's principal demands are Israeli withdrawal from the Shaba Farms and the release of Lebanese prisoners, it is clear that when circumstances allow, he will demand the return of seven Shiite Muslim villages that were part of Mandatory Palestine and that became part of Israel in 1948. The northernmost of the seven was the tiny village of Ibel al-Qamah, located about two km south of Metulla until it was destroyed in 1948. On the eve of the 1948 war, less than 2,000 people lived in Hunin, located on the spot where Moshav Margaliot stands today, on a hill west of Kiryat Shmona. Qadas stood adjacent to Nebi Yusha, today the Yesha Fortress, west of the Hula Valley. To the south stood the village of Malkiya, adjacent to the kibbutz of the same name. On the northern highway near present-day Moshav Avivim stood the village of Salha. Two villages are in the Western Galilee: Tarbikha, now the site of Moshav Shomera, and Al-Bassa, now Betzet.
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