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District of Jaffa
Ethnically cleansed days ago |
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Occupation Date | April 25, 1948 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Distance From District | 8.5 (km) East of Jaffa | |||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 25 (meters) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Map Location | See location #18 on the map View from satellite |
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Military Operation | Operation Chametz | |||||||||||||||||||||
Exodus Cause | Military assault by Zionist troops | |||||||||||||||||||||
Village Temains | The village was mostly destroyed with the exception of ten houses remain standing. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Ethnically Cleansing | Saqiya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Pre-Nakba Land Ownership |
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps |
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Land Usage As of 1945 |
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Schools | Saqiya had an elementary school for boys founded in 1936, and it had an enrollment of 136 students in 1945. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Places of Warship | One mosque | |||||||||||||||||||||
Exculsive Jewish Colonies Who Usurped Village Lands |
Or Yehuda (settled by Jews from Iraq and North Africa) and Ramat Pinqas. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Village Before NakbaThe village was situated on uneven terrain on the central coastal plain. A number of paved roads passing through or near the village afforded it easy access to Jaffa, Lydda, Tel Aviv, and adjacent villages as well. Its name meant 'irrigation canal' or 'water wheel.' In 1596, Saqiya was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 270. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards. The Syrian Sufi traveller al-Bakri al-Siddiqi, who toured the area in the mid-eighteenth century, wrote that he passed through Saqiya when he was travelling to Jaffa.In the late nineteenth century, the village of Saqiya had a well to the south. Its adobe brick houses stood close together. Some concrete buildings appeared in the later years of the Mandate, along with a modest expansion of the village. The population was Muslim. The village had a mosque, opened toward the end of the Mandate, and an elementary school for boys, established in 1936. This school acquired 16 dunums for agricultural training and had an enrollment of 136 students by the mid-1940s. The community worked primarily in agriculture, cultivating fruit, especially citrus, grain, and vegetables. In 1944/45 a total of2,422 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 2,534 dunums were allotted to cereals; 145 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Village Occupation and Ethnic CleaningAccording to Israeli sources, the village was attacked and captured on 25 April 1948; a Palestinian source and an Associated Press dispatch both state that it fell a couple of days later, on 27–28 April, along with al-Khayriyya and Kafr 'Ana. In either case, it was one of the villages targeted during Operation Hametz (see Bayt Dajan, Jaffa sub-disctrict). The History of the Haganah states that Saqiya and neighboring villages were all taken 'without a fight.' No mention is made of their residents.Zionists Colonies on Village LandsThe settlement of Or Yehuda (135159) was established on village lands in 1950 to settle Jews from Iraq and North Africa. Ramat Pinqas (135160) was built in 1952 on land belonging to the neighboring village of al-Khayriyya.Village TodayNo more than ten houses remain. Some are inhabited by Jewish families, one is used as a workshop for car repair, and others are deserted. One of the occupied houses has a large front door and a garret with a slanted roof extending along the short side. A second house is quite long and has a large number of windows of various sizes. A third is a two-storey house whose second floor is fronted by a facade decorated with wide lancet arches. In addition to the houses, there are truncated walls, the mud-brick foundation of a destroyed building, and other debris on the site. There are also cactuses and sycamore, cypress, Christ's-thorn, and palm trees. Part of the surrounding land is cultivated; the rest is covered by settlement buildings.SourceDr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains. |
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Related Maps | Town Lands' Demarcation Maps خرائط للقضاء توضح حدود القرى والاودية Town's map on MapQuest View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia |
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More Information | في كتاب كي لا ننسى في كتاب بلادنا فلسطين في كتاب النكبة والفردوس المفقود المزيد من موقع هوية |
Display Name | Clan/Hamolah | Country of Residence |
Zeid Atta | Atta | - |
Linda Yusuf Al-Nadi | Al-Nadi | North Carolina, USA |
مروان أبوحشيش | أبوحشيش | Abu Dhabi |
محمد | - | - |
ali aqel | abu ajoa | - |
حمزة | النادي | الأردن |
Linda Y. Al-Nadi | Al-Nadi | Tennessee, USA |
Mohammed Sallam | سلام | - |
yahya Al Shekh Hassan | - | DUBAI, U.A.E |
Adel Mahmoud Hamza عادل حمزه | Al Shaikh Hassan | Oslo, Norway |
JUHAR | جوهر | البقعة, الاردن |
AHMED DAMISI/ ALLUBAN | DAMISI | - |
الدميسي | الدميسي | الاردن- اللبن |
يافاوي | - | irbid, jordan |
عبدالعزيز عقل | أبو عجوه | الاردن |
moath | abu ajoah | jordan, jordan |
mohannad aljawhary | - | - |
عامر الجوهري | الجوهري | - |
palestaineinmyheart | الجوهري | - |
الجوهري | الجوهري | نابلس, فلسطين |
نزار الجوهري | الجوهري | رام الله, فلسطين |
فراس الجوهري | - | - |
فلسطين | - | نابلس |
KHALED JOUHARI | JOUHARI | - |
W. Nadi | El-Nadi/Al-Nadi/Nadi | NJ, USA |
inadi | النادي | palestine, palestine |
TAN | ALNADI | PALESTINE |
DR ALNADI | ALNADI | BERLIN, GERMANY |
Mohammad Al shaikh Hassan | Alshaikh Hassan | Amman, Jordan |
Haitham Abdelmohde | Abdelmohde-Alnade | JORDAN, JORDAN |
Usama Atta | Atta | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
Mohammad Ata | - | Amman, Joradn |
MHA | Abozaid | Qatar, Qatar |
Tareq Damisi | Damisi | Jordan, JORDAN |
Amjad Damisi | Damisi | Qatar |
laila atta | ata | - |
Fadi | Attia | England, United Kingdom |