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| Tall al-Safi District of Hebron تلّ الصافي - תל א-צאפי Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
July 9, 1948
Distance from district center
35 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation from the sea
175 (meters)
Map location
See location number #3 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation An-Far
Israeli attacking brigade
The First Battalion of the Giva'ti Brigade
Village defenders
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers.
Refugees' migration route
Refugess headed to the Hebron hills.
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village was completely obliterated and defaced.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisTall al-Safi inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
27,794
Jewish
1,120
Public
11
Total
28,925
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
696
0
Area planted w/ olives
521
0
Planted W/ Cereal
19,716
1,115
Built up
68
0
Cultivable
20,412
1,115
Non-Cultivable
7,325
5
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
484
1922
644
1931
925
1945
1,290
1948
1,496
Est. Refugees 1998
9,190
Number of houses
In (1931): 208 (includes three adjacent khirbas)
Town's name through history
The Philistine referred to Tall al-Safi by the city of Gath.
Shrines/maqams
The villagers maintained a shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Muhammad.
Nearby wadies & rivers
Tall al-Safi is situated on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur.
Archeological sites
Tall al-Safi contains a Crusades castle and it also contains walls, burial places, a cave, and carved stones.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
No Israeli settlements on village lands.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"There are remnants of a well and the crumbling stone walls of a pool. A few tents belonging to a group of Bedouin are occasionally pitched nearby."
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