Abu Zurayq
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 Abu Zurayq
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| Arabic | |
| Also Spelled | Abu Zureiq |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°38′02.50″N 35°07′33.50″E / 32.634028°N 35.125972°ECoordinates: 32°38′02.50″N 35°07′33.50″E / 32.634028°N 35.125972°E |
| Population | 550 (1945) |
| Area | 6,493 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | April 12-13, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
Abu Zurayq was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa, situated near Wadi Abu Zurayq. It was depopulated on April 12-13 during and after the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.
In 1945 it had a population of 550.[2] Paleolithic stone tools have been found in Tell Abu Zreiq within the former village lands, as well as the remains of a Bronze Age farmhouse.[3]
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004 p. xviii, village #153. Also gives causes of depopulation.
- ^ Hadawi, 1970, p. 47. Also gives land area in dunams.
- ^ Gonen, 1992.
[edit] Bibliography
- Benvenisti, Meron, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta (translator) (2002), Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948, ISBN 0-520-23422-7, ISBN 978-0-520-23422-2 376 pages p.74
- Simha Flapan, "The Palestinian Exodus of 1948" in 16, no. 4 (Sum. 87): 3-26.Simha Flapan records Eliezer Bauer of the HaShomer Hatiz kibbutz and a member of the Mapam Arab Department reporting during a discussion that the villagers of Abu Zrik and Abu Shusha were arrested or driven out and the villages were then destroyed.
- Guérin, M. V. (1875): Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Samarie, 2 pt. ("Seconde partie -Samarie")("Tome II") (p. 240)
- Gonen, Rivka (1992), Burial patterns and cultural diversity in late Bronze Age Canaan (Illustrated ed.), EISENBRAUNS, ISBN 0-931464-68-4, 9780931464683, http://books.google.com/?id=8pXGENpNx0wC&pg=PA55&dq=abu+zureiq&q=abu%20zureiq
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7, 9780521009676
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