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| Qannir District of Haifa قنْير - קניר Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
April 25, 1948
Distance from district center
35 (km) South of Haifa
Elevation from the sea
100 (meters)
Map location
See location number #43 on the map
Israeli military operation
Possibly operation Coastal Clearing.
Village defenders
Arab Liberation Army headed by Fawzi al-Qawuqji.
Exodus Cause
Feer of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely obliterated.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisQannir inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
10,826
Jewish
50
Public
455
Total
11,331
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
460
20
Area planted w/ olives
780
0
Planted W/ Cereal
5,760
30
Built up
22
0
Cultivable
6,220
50
Non-Cultivable
5,039
0
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
19th century
250
1922
400
1931
483
1945
750
1948
870
Est. Refugees 1998
5,343
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
92
1948
165
Archeological sites
Qannir contained a number of khirbats, where the ruins of walls and cisterns were found, and it appears that the village itself was constructed over an earlier settlement too.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Regavim
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Stone rubble is strewn about the site, which is covered with thorns, fig trees, and cactus."
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| ابو حسن | - | ZARQA |
| د. محمد احمد قاسم | - | البيادر, الاردن |
| خالد نواف موسى قاسم | قاسم | WARWICKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM |
| موسى نواف موسى قاسم | قاسم | لندن, لندن |
| وليد خليل موسى قاسم | قاسم | عمان , عمان |
| محمد قندس | قندس | فلسطين, برطعة |
| ماهر قدارة | - | - |
| Nashat Ali Mohammad Qundos | - | STCKHOLM, SWEDEN |
| فضل حمد | حمد | الاردن |
| Mohammad | Shawish | - |
| فؤاد خليل موسى قاسم | قاسم | الاردن |
| مهند قداره | قدارة | كفررمان |
| Omar maen | Qannir | SAUDI ARABIA, SAUDI ARABIA |
| Saher Kaddarah | Kaddarah | AMMAN, JORDAN |
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| Hisham Hamad | Hamad | - |
| Hani Hamad | Hamad | SELANGOR, MALAYSIA |
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| Mohammed El-awdeh | El-awdeh | LONDON, UK |
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