Welcome To Saqiya - ساقية (סאקיה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

April 25, 1948

Distance From District

8.5 (km) East of Jaffa

Elevation

25 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #18 on the map

View from satellite

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

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	5,151
Jewish	447
Public	252
**Total	5,850

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	422	93
Irrigated & Plantation	145	0
Planted W/ Cereal	2,534	354
Built up	30	0
Arable	5,101	441
Non-Arable	272	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	270
1922	427
1931	663
1945	1,100
1948	1,276
Est. Refugees 1998	7,836

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	142
1948	273

Near By Towns

al-Khayriyya ↖	Zionist Colonies ↑ (N)	Zionist Colonies ↗
Yazur ←	Saqiya	→ Kafr 'Ana
↙ Yazur	↓ Bayt Dajan	↘ al-Lydd Airport

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.

Village Before Nakba

The 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 Cleaning

According 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 Lands

The 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 Today

No 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.

Source

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

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