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Welcome To al-Sawamir - السوامير

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Picture for al-Sawamir Village - Palestine: : وقفة على اﻷطلال -- بكّار فحماوي -- ٍثحف 11 2023
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Occupation Date May 22, 1948
Distance From District 22 (km) South of Haifa
Elevation 50 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #21 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Shoter (Police)
Attacking Units A special force drawn from the Golani, Carmeli, and Alexandroni brigades
Defenders Local Palestinian militia, Arab Liberation Army volunteers, and some assistance from the Iraqi army in Tulkarm and Jinin.
Acts of Terror In September 1948, UN investigators stated that 130 villagers were unaccounted for (al-Tira, 'Ayn Houwd, & 'Ayn Ghazal for more detailes)
Refugees' Migration Routes Villagers were expelled eastward to Jinin
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Sawamir inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Population
Year Population*
1596 17
1931 1,439
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses In (1931): 247 (included under 'Ayn Ghazal)
Archeological Sites al-Sawamir contained foundations of buildings, cut building stones, caves, tombs, and a well.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands		 En Ayyala & 'Ofer
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on the lower, western slopes of Mount Carmel, overlooking the coastal plain. In 1596, al-Sawamir was a village in the nahiya of Shafa (liwa' of Lajjun), with a population of seventeen. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives. Al-Sawamir was classified as a hamlet by the Mandate Palestine Index Gazetteer. Archaeological relics on the site of the village included the foundations of buildings, cut building stones, caves, tombs, and a well.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Although it lay just to the south of the cluster of villages forming the Little Triangle which stood fast against Israeli attacks until the end of July 1948, al-Sawamir probably fell some time before that. The village may have succumbed at the same time as the nearby village of al-Tantura (one of the last coastal communities to be occupied in the area), which was attacked on the night of 22-23 May.
Israeli Settlements on Village Lands

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of En Ayyala was established in 1949 west of the village site on the lands of Kafr Lam. Its inhabitants cultivated the coastal lands adjacent to the village. Ofer, built in 1950, is partly on village land and partly on land that once belonged to the village of Ayn Ghazal.

Village Today

The ruins of two walls (formerly parts of a building) are visible at the site, which has been fenced in with barbed wire. Pine trees occupy much of the land on the site, and pomegranate and fig trees and cactuses are scattered throughout. The surrounding coastal lands are used by Israeli farmers for growing vegetables and fruit, particularly bananas.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
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