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| al-Sarafand District of Haifa الصرفند - א-צרפנד Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
July 16, 1948
Distance from district center
19 (km) South West of Haifa
Elevation from the sea
25 (meters)
Map location
See location number #15 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Shoter (Police)
Israeli attacking brigade
A special force drawn from the Israeli Navy, Golani, Carmeli, and Alexandroni brigades
Village defenders
Local Palestinian militia, some Arab Liberation Army volunteers, and possibly some help from the Iraqi army in Tulkarm and Jinin
Israeli acts of terror
In September 1948, UN investigators stated that 130 villagers were unaccounted for (see al-Tira & 'Ayn Ghazal for more details).
Refugees' migration route
The refugees were mostly expelled first eastward to al-Tira, and then they were expelled again to but this time to Jinin (West Bank)
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of a remaining house.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Sarafand inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
3,486
Jewish
1,923
Public
1,923
Total
5,409
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
22
Planted W/ Cereal
3,249
Built up
6
Cultivable
3,271
Non-Cultivable
2,132
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
61
19th century
150
1922
204
1931
188
1945
290
1948
336
Est. Refugees 1998
2,066
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
38
1948
67
Town's name through history
The Crusades referred to al-Sarafand by Sarepta Yudee
Water supplies
The village contained more than ten wells
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
kibbutz Neve-Yam, Tzerufa, & Geva' Karmel
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"Only one house, a large structure with two arches in front, has been spared. The Tel Aviv-Haifa highway crosses part of the site."
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