Home to my paternal great grandparents, Al-Manshiyya was a Palestinian neighborhood that was once situated in the North of Jaffa. It faced paramilitary attacks and mass demolitions under a brutal Zionist colonial occupation, between 1948 and the 1980s. The neighborhood’s obliterated urban fabric was subsequently reinscribed with expansive public beach parks, tranquil hotels, and sporadic parking lots between the 1980s and the present day.