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Welcome To Fajja - فجة (פג'ה)

District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for Fajja Village - Palestine: : قوشان لأرض يثبت ملكية سليمان حسن الكوز الى 19 دونم في قرية فجة المغتصبة
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 15, 1948
Distance From District 15 (km) Northeast of Jaffa
Elevation 25 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #13 on the map

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Military Operation Terror campaign before the war have started.
Attacking Units Haganah and lrgun
Exodus Cause Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)
Village Temains In June 1948, Yosef Weitz (a Jewish National Fund official) recommended Fajja's complete destruction. Based on his recommendation, the village was completely obliterated. It is very possibly one day, to hold JNF responsible in court for their terror acts.
Ethnically Cleansing On 17th February 1948, some Haganah and lrgun terror gangs terrorized the villagers into fleeing. Fajja was completely ethnically cleansed on May 15th, 1948.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 3,215
Jewish 1,580
Public 124
**Total 4,919
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 602 166
Irrigated & Plantation 53 8
Planted W/ Cereal 2,457 1,406
Built up 7 0
Arable 3,112 1,580
Non-Arable 220 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 194
1931 707
1945 1,570 (370 Jewish)
1948 1,392 (370 Jewish)
Est. Refugees 1998 8,548
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 165
1948 324
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Schools Fajja had an elementary school for boys founded in 1922, and in 1945 it had an enrollment of 181 students.
Archeological Sites Fajja was constructed over the remains of an archaeological site that contains fragments of columns (shafts and capitals), the foundations of buildings, and a cistern.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
The Israeli City of Petach Tiqva.
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Village Before Nakba

The village was situated in a relatively flat area on the central coastal plain. It was linked to Lydda and Jaffa by the highway that ran between these two cities. In the late nineteenth century, Fajja was a small village built of adobe bricks. It was about 1 km east of the Zionist settlement of Petach Tiqwa, which had been founded in 1878. During the Mandate period some newer houses were constructed of concrete. During that time, the entire population of Fajja was Muslim. The village had an elementary school, opened in 1922, whose enrollment reached 781 by the mid-1940s (including 10 female students). The residents cultivated crops, such as grain and vegetables, on the greater part of their land. In 1944/45 a total of 602 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 2,457 dunums were allotted to cereals; 53 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Water for agriculture was obtained from rainfall and wells. Faija was constructed over the remains of an archaeological site that contained fragments of columns (shafts and capitals), the foundations of buildings, and a cistern.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Attacks on Fajja began as early as 20 May 1947, when a Palmach unit infiltrated the village on the pretext of apprehending thieves who had murdered two people in Petach Tiqwa. According to the History of the Haganah, shooting broke out when the unit approached the coffeehouse where the thieves were allegedly hiding and two villagers were killed; 'explosives experts stormed the coffee-house under heavy covering fire, planted an explosive charge and ignited it.' The 'Book of the Palmach' reports that the explosion was unnecessarily delayed and although the coffeehouse was destroyed, no one was harmed.

The next recorded attack was launched by the Irgun on 17 February 1948, after which some villagers fled, according to Israeli sources. Israeli historian Benny Morris also states that Fajja was hit 'repeatedly' by both the Haganah and Irgun in the early months of the war; by May, only several dozen residents remained. Haganah intelligence officers met on 9 May and decided that this 'bothersome element' should be expelled. The last villagers left on 15 May, according to Israeli military intelligence, because of 'pressure by us—a whispering operation.'

By June, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) had set in motion the process of destroying Fajja, among other villages. On 14 June, Ezra Danin, a senior Haganah intelligence officer and official of the Jewish Agency, reported to JNF official Yosef Weitz on the progress made in destroying Fajja. Two days later, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary that Fajja and two other villages had been destroyed.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The site was initially occupied in the early 1950s by a transit camp for new immigrants called 'Ammishav (140164), but now it has become an eastern suburb of the settlement of Petach Tiqwa (139166), which had been established west of the village in 1878.

Village Today

The village has been completely razed except for one house and a pond. Eucalyptus trees and cactuses further mark the site. The surrounding land is partly occupied by buildings; the rest is cultivated.

Source

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

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