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| Qisarya District of Haifa قيسارية - קיסאריה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
February 15, 1948
Distance from district center
37 (km) South West of Haifa
Elevation from the sea
less than 25 (meters)
Map location
See location number #46 on the map
Israeli military operation
Coastal Clearing
Israeli attacking brigade
Palmach troops, headed by Yitzhak Rabin, occupied and destroyed the village.
Israeli acts of terror
Massacre occured by Jewish troops against the town's inhabitants.
Exodus Cause
Expulsion by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village had been mostly destroyed by Yitzhak Rabin with the exception of few houses. It should be also noted that the Nobel Prize winner made sure soon after the 1967 war that the villages of Yalu, 'Imwas, Bayt Nuba, and al-Latrun (South East of al-Ramla) were all completely defaced; we demand restitution!
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisQisarya inhabitants were terrorized out of their homes by the Haganah between January 12th and February 15th 1948
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
20,959
Jewish
874
Public
9,953
Total
31,786
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
18
0
Irrigated & Plantation
108
0
Planted W/ Cereal
1,406
787
Built up
28
83
Cultivable
1,532
787
Non-Cultivable
29,352
4
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1922
346
1931
706
1945
1,120 (160 Jewish)
1948
1,114
Est. Refugees 1998
6,839
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
143
1948
225
Town's name through history
Original Qisarya port's was called Strato's Tower by the Phoenician, and later on the Romans referred to the village by Caesarea.
Schools
Qisarya had an elementary school for boys, which was founded in 1884 by Ottomans.
Inhabitants place of origin
In 1878, Muslim Bosnians settled in Qisarya after the Austrian invasion of their country.
Notable people from town
The celebrated rhetorician and belle lettrist 'Abd al-Hamid al-Katib ( d. A.D. 750)
Archeological sites
Qisarya contained high and low aqueducts of the city, the theater, parts of the city wall, the hippodrome, storage vaults inside the harbor, and a Crusader fortress.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Sedot Yam , Or 'Aqiva, & the Qesarya.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Most of the houses have been demolished. The site has been excavated in recent years, largely by Italian, American, and Israeli teams, and turned into a tourist area. Most of the few remaining houses are now restaurants, and the village mosque has been converted into a bar"
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