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| Zakariyya District of Hebron زكرية - זכריא Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
October 23, 1948
Distance from district center
25 (km) Northwest of Hebron
Elevation from the sea
275 (meters)
Map location
See location number #2 on the map
Israeli military operation
Either Operations ha-Har or Operation Ya'ov
Israeli attacking brigade
Possibly Giv'ati Brigade's Fourth Battalion
Village defenders
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhoods, local Palestinian militias and some Arab Liberation Army volunteers
Exodus Cause
Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisZakariyya was partially destroyed, and the all remaining houses and its mosque became the property of the Jewish National Fund and Israeli government. Some Kurdish or Khazari Jews have taken residence in some of its houses.
Ethnically cleansing
by IsraelisZakariyya was completely ethnically cleansed on June 9th, 1950 based on the orders of Yosef Weitz, a Jewish National Fund (JNF) official. We hope that JNF will be taken to court for their terror acts one day, especially in US and Europe courts. This racist organization has been the engine behind confiscating and destroying many of the Palestinian properties to make sure Palestinians do not come back to their homes and farms.
Terminating refugee camps
Many of the villagers still live in the Dihaysha and al-'Aroub Refugee Camps in the Occupied Bethlehem and Hebron districts. Few of its orginial residents became internal refugees in Israel, and some were ethnically cleansed to al-Ramla.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
15,311
Jewish
0
Public
9
Total
15,320
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
961
Area planted w/ olives
440
Planted W/ Cereal
6,523
Built up
70
Cultivable
7,484
Non-Cultivable
7,766
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1596
259
1922
682
1931
742
1945
1,180
1948
383
Est. Refugees 1998
2,351
Number of houses
In (1931): 189
Town's name through history
Zakariyya was known to the Romans by Caper Zacharia.
Religious institutions
One Mosque (still standing)
Water supplies
The villagers obtained their drinking water from two communal wells:- al-Saflani well which was drilled next to Wadi 'Ajjur, and al-Sarara well located north of the village.
Archeological sites
According to the Bible David fought Goliath at Tall Zakariyya!
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Zekharya and possibly Beit Shamesh too.
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The mosque and a number of houses, some occupied by Jewish residents and others deserted, remain on the site. Large sections of the site itself are covered with wild vegetation. The mosque is in a state of neglect and an Israeli flag is planted on top of the minaret."
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