Arab al-Fuqara
| Arab al-Fuqara | |
 Arab al-Fuqara
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°27′07.70″N 34°54′21.05″E / 32.452139°N 34.9058472°ECoordinates: 32°27′07.70″N 34°54′21.05″E / 32.452139°N 34.9058472°E |
| Population | 310[1] (1945) |
| Area | 15[2] dunums |
| Date of depopulation | April 10, 1948[3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Hadera |
Arab al-Fuqara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948.[3] At that time, the land records of the village consisted of a total area of 2,714 Dunums, of which 2,513 were owned by Jews, and just 15 owned by Arabs, with the remainder being public lands (186 dunams).
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[edit] Location
The village was located 42 km southwest of Haifa, south of Wadi al-Mafjar and northwest of Hadera, in a flat, sandy area.[4]
[edit] History
The Arab villagers were descendants of a section of the al-Balawina Bedouin tribe, whose primary territory was near Beersheba.[4] The area was generally swampy and malarial, and this limited population growth until the mid-1920s.
The gradual and legal expansion of the Jewish town Hadera reduced the free public land available to the Arab villagers, until only a thin strip of land between Hadera and Wadi al-Mafjar was retained (15 dunams).[4]
The village population in 1945 was 310.[1]
[edit] 1948
On 6 April 1948, the Haganah implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants.[5] On 10 April, the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara, together with the villagers of Arab al-Nufay'at and Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, were ordered to leave the area.[6]
[edit] The village today
The ground is now part of the northwestern area of Hadera.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hadawi, 1970, p.47
- ^ Hadawi (1970), total area of 2,714 dunams was divided as Arab owned 15 dunams, Jewish owned 2513 dunams, public 186 dunams
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #180. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ a b c d Khalidi, 1992, p.144
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.245, note 628
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.245, note 631
[edit] Bibliography
- 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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