al-Ghazzawiyya

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Al-Ghazzawiyya ( Arabic الغزاوية, DMG al-Ġazzāwīya ) was a village in the Beisan sub- district of the Mandate of Palestine , which was 2 km east of the city of Baisan . In 1945 it had 1,640 inhabitants, including 1,020 Arabs and 620 Jews . During the Palestine War , the village was conquered and depopulated by Israel .

history

Several archaeological sites bear witness to the long-standing settlement of the area. Al-Ghazzawiyya was surrounded by Tall-al-Barta (in the north), Tall al-Husn (in the west) and Tall al-Maliha (in the south-west). Excavations on Tall al-Husn show a settlement from the 1st millennium BC. . BC to the eighth century CE. Z. , as was in the area an Arab village.

Term of office

In modern times the village was located in a wide area in the Baisan Valley. The villagers were members of the Bedouin tribe Al-Ghazzawiyya, who with the tribes Al-Bashatiwa and Al-Suqur made up the majority of the valley's population. In the 1931 census conducted by the British Mandate authorities , the village of Arab Abu Hashiya counted 156 Muslim residents and 29 houses.

In 1944/1945 the village had an area of ​​18,408 dunums . 13 dunums in the village were used for citrus and bananas , 5,185 dunums for grain, 34 dunums were irrigated or used as orchards, and 94 dunums were classified as uncultivated land.

Palestine War and Consequences

On May 20, 1948, during Operation Gideon , an Israeli advance in the Palestinian War , the village was captured by the Golani Brigade . The Arab residents were forced to flee to neighboring Syria or what is now the West Bank .

The Jewish kibbutzim Maoz Haim and Neve Eitan were built on the site of the former village, although most of their boundaries are devoted to agriculture, especially wheat. According to Walid Kahidi , there was an archaeological site in the village area, Tell al-Ru'yan, which was turned into a garbage dump.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Khalidi 1992, p. 48
  2. ^ Department of Statistics 1945, p. 6
  3. ^ A b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics: Village Statistics, April, 1945. Given in Hadawi 1970, p. 43
  4. ↑ a b Morris 2004, pp. Xvii , village # 134.
  5. ↑ Khalidi 1992, pp. 48-49
  6. ↑ Mills 1932, p. 77
  7. ↑ Khalidi 1992, p. 49
  8. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics: Village Statistics, April, 1945. Given in Hadawi 1970, p. 84 (English)
  9. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics: Village Statistics, April, 1945. Given in Hadawi, 1970, p. 134 (English)
  10. ^ A b Al-Ghazzawiyya: Town Statistics and Facts. In: palestineremembered.com. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .

bibliography

  • Department of Statistics, Government of Palestine: Village Statistics, April, 1945 . 1945 (English, web.nli.org.il ).
  • Sami Hadawi: Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine . Ed .: Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. 1970 (English, palestineremembered.com ).
  • Walid Khalidi: All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 . Ed .: Institute for Palestine Studies . Washington, DC 1992, ISBN 0-88728-224-5 (English).
  • E. Mills: Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas . Ed .: Government of Palestine. Jerusalem 1932 (English, archive.org ).
  • Benny Morris: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited . Ed .: Cambridge University Press. 2004, ISBN 0-511-16618-4 (English, books.google.com - reading sample).

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Coordinates: 32 ° 30 '  N , 35 ° 33'  E