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| 'Amqa District of Acre عمقا - עמקא Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
July 10, 1948
Distance from district center
11 (km) Northeast of Acre
Elevation from the sea
100 (meters)
Map location
See location number #18 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Dekel
Israeli attacking brigade
Sheva' (Seventh) Brigade and the First Battalion of the Carmeli Brigade.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by Israelis'Amqa was mostly destroyed with the exception of the its school and its mosque.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelis'Amqa was mostly ethnically cleansed with the exception of its Druze inhabitants who still live nearby.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
6,060
Jewish
0
Public
8
Total
6,068
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
1,648
Area planted w/ olives
1,884
Planted W/ Cereal
3,348
Built up
36
Cultivable
4,996
Non-Cultivable
1,036
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
215
19th century
300
1931
894
1945
1,240
1948
1,438
Est. Refugees 1998
8,833
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
212
1948
341
Town's name through history
The Hebrews referred to the village by 'Emeq (which means valley in Hebrew), the Romans called it Kefar Amqa, and to the Crusaders it was known by Amca.
Schools
One elementary school for boys which was founded by the Ottomans in 1887, which remains standing to this date.
Religious institutions
'Amqa has one mosque which remains standing, but in need of serious renovation!
Archeological sites
Three khirbats lay within 'Amqa's vicinity that contains the foundations of buildings, well-chiseled building stones, presses, and a cistern.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
'Amqa
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The site is overgrown with wild grasses. Only the school and mosque are extant. The mosque is a stone structure surmounted with a dome. The school has a gabled roof and has been joined to some new annexes that were added by Israelis who now use the complex as a warehouse."
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