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| al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya District of Gaza السوافير الغربية - א-סואפיר אל-ע'רביה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 18, 1948
Distance from district center
30 (km) North East of Gaza
Elevation from the sea
50 (meters)
Map location
See location number #14 on the map
Israeli military operation
Second stage of Operation Barak
Israeli attacking brigade
Possibly Giva'ti Brigade
Exodus Cause
Feer of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of its cemetery.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
7,307
Jewish
0
Public
216
Total
7,523
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
585
Planted W/ Cereal
6,663
Built up
25
Cultivable
7,248
Non-Cultivable
250
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
237
1922
572
1931
723
1945
1,030
1948
1,195
Est. Refugees 1998
7,337
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
134
1948
221
Schools
al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya shared a school with the other two Sawafir villages, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of about 280.
Shrines/maqams
A shrine for local sage al-Shaykh al-Baz
Archeological sites
The village contained the fragmentary remains of earlier occupation.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Merkaz Shappira, Massu'ot Yitzchaq, and 'En Tzurim
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"All of the houses are gone. An old village road is clearly visible. The cemetery is overgrown with wild vegetation. One can see the debris of (what appears to be) a water-pump building in the al-Baz orchard"
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