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| Umm al-Shawf District of Haifa أُم الشوف - אום א-שוף Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Soon after occupation, IZL gangs searched the Palestinian Arab refugees and found a pistol. When their demand to find out who owned the pistol was
fruitless, the commander at the seen execute seven male refugees.(Benny Morris p. 117-118)
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 12, 1948
Distance from district center
29.5 (km) South of Haifa
Elevation from the sea
125 (meters)
Map location
See location number #39 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Coastal Clearing
Israeli attacking brigade
Possibly units from the Haganah and the Irgun terror gang.
Village defenders
Local Palestinian militia and Arab Liberation Army volunteers.
Israeli acts of terror
Massacre occured by Jewish troops against the town's inhabitants.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely obliterated with the exception of its shrine.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelis
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
6,320
Jewish
0
Public
1,106
Total
7,426
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
107
Area planted w/ olives
32
Planted W/ Cereal
6,177
Built up
31
Cultivable
6,284
Non-Cultivable
1,111
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
19th century
150
1922
252
1931
325
1945
480
1948
557
Est. Refugees 1998
3,419
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
73
1948
125
Religious institutions
One mosque
Shrines/maqams
A shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh 'Abd Allah (still standing).
Nearby wadies & rivers
Umm al-Shawf was situated on the sloping section of Wadi al-Marah.
Water supplies
Umm al-Shawf had two springs in its north side which supplied it with its drinking water needs.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Giv'at Nili
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External Links
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Piles of stone debris from the houses are scattered about the site. The shrine of Shaykh 'Abd Allah still stands."
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