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Welcome To al-Ruways - الرويس (א-רויס)

District of Acre
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date July 15, 1948
Distance From District 12 (km) East of Acre
Elevation 35 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #26 on the map

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Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains al-Ruways was completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Ruways inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 1,159
Jewish 0
Public 4
**Total 1,163
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 222
Olive Groves 40
Planted W/ Cereal 844
Built up 15
Arable 1,066
Non-Arable 82
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 154
1931 217
1945 330
1948 383
Est. Refugees 1998 2,351
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 44
1948 77
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Damun
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al-Damun
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Kabul
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al-Ruways
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Tamra
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Tamra
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Tamra
Town's Name Through History The Crusaders referred to al-Ruways by Careblier.
Schools al-Ruways students attended school in the nearby village of al-Damun.
Places of Warship One mosque
Archeological Sites The village contains a khirba with caved-in walls, cisterns and rock-hewn tombs.To the southwest, there are also milestones, which once marked an old Roman road.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 No Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Before Nakba

The village, situated on the site of the Crusader 'Careblier,' stood on a small rocky hill overlooking the plain of Acre. A secondary road connected it with the villages of al-Damun and al-Birwa, to the north, and ultimately to the Acre–Safad highway. This road also linked it to the main Acre–Haifa road, on the coast. In the late nineteenth century, al-Ruways was situated on open ground with olive groves to the north. Its entire population of about 400 was Muslim. Al-Ruways was one of the smallest villages in the sub-disctrict. The village houses, built initially of stone and, from the 1930s onward, of reinforced concrete, were grouped in two quarters, separated by a road. The village had its own mosque; its children went to school in the village of al-Damun. The people of al-Ruways obtained their drinking water from domestic wells that collected rainwater in the winter. They worked principally in agriculture, cultivating wheat, corn, sesame, watermelons, and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 844 dunums was allocated to cereals; 222 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 40 dunums were planted with olive trees.

Southwest of al-Ruways was a khirba, the antiquities of which included fallen walls, cisterns, and rock–hewn tombs. Milestones that once marked Roman roads were found 1 km to the southeast.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

After occupying Nazareth on 16 July 1948, units of the Israeli army's Seventh Brigade advanced into western Galilee to take some of the villages in the sub-disctrict of Acre, including al-Ruways. Bolstered by successes at al-Ruways and other villages, Israeli forces moved deeper into Central Galilee towards Sakhnin. Most civilians in the area fled under bombardment or as a result of the fall of neighboring towns (Nazareth, Shafa Amr, and others).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. The settlement of Ya'sur, established in 1949, lies to the north of al-Damun and cultivates the lands of al-Ruways.

Village Today

The site is deserted. The debris of old wells and cement roofs is strewn over the site, which is otherwise covered by a forest of eucalyptus trees and cactuses. The surrounding lands are cultivated by the residents of Ya'sur.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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