The book discusses, through documentation and analysis, the issue of detention centers established by the Israeli authorities to detain Palestinians and Arabs arrested by the Israeli forces during the occupation of the Palestinian cities and villages in the 1948 war. Thousands of Palestinians who were able to carry arms were arrested for 12 to 18 months. Despite the importance of the issue, only few writers addressed it in passing, on the sidelines of other topics on the 1948 Nakba, knowing that thousands of detainees and their families have been displaced after the major wave of displacement during the war, in the context of the process of subjugating the Arab minority who stayed within the borders of the Israeli state after its establishment.
If we can understand the silence of Israeli historians and their disregard for this issue, we cannot at all fathom the silence and negligence of the Palestinian historians and documenters. This question, more specifically the silence of those directly concerned, except for rare cases, has to be examined and explained.