This work is an attempt to investigate the experiences of Palestinians who conceal themselves under Israeli occupation by examining this phenomenon in detail and analyzing its various aspects: its security, political, social, and cultural dimensions. It traces this phenomenon across the decades of Palestinian resistance to the Zionist project which has imposed itself by brute force on Palestine and its people. This phenomenon has played an important role in the Palestinian experience yet there have appeared, thus far, few studies or books on this subject.
Concealment and pursuit have been a fundamental aspect of the Palestinian struggle for liberation by keeping alive the spirit of that struggle and this despite the massive efforts of Israel and its supporters to put a stop to it. To that end, the Israeli occupation has employed all their vast means and resources. Readers of this work who have followed the history of the modern Palestinian struggle will discover a lengthy list of Palestinians who, in concealment, were able to outwit the Occupation and inflict severe human and material losses upon it, aided at many points by the widespread support and embrace of their society.