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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

March 30, 1948

Distance From District

11 (km) Northeast of Jaffa

Elevation

50 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #5 on the map

View from satellite

Exodus Cause

Fear of Jewish attack, or of being caught in the fighting

Village Temains

al-Sawalima was completely obliterated with the exception of one school room still standing

Ethnically Cleansing

al-Sawalima inhabitants were intimidated into fleeing by the Haganah and IZL (ETZEL) on March 30th 1948, especially after the IZL's kidnapping of al-Shaykh Muwannis notables.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	5,844
Jewish	0
Public	98
**Total	5,942

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves	894
Irrigated & Plantation	191
Planted W/ Cereal	4,566
Arable	5,651
Non-Arable	291

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1931	429
1945	800
1948	928
Est. Refugees 1998	5,699

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Near By Towns

Ijlil al-Qibliyya ↖	Abu Kishk ↑ (N)	Abu Kishk ↗
Zionist Colonies ←	al-Sawalima	→ al-Mirr
↙ al-Jammasin al-Sharqi		↘ Fajja

Schools

al-Sawalima had an elementary school for boys in founded in 1946, and it had an initial enrollment of 31 students (one school room remain standing).

Inhabitants Place of Origin

The village was frist founded and settled by the nomadic' Arab al-Sawalima.

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village is situated 2 km north of al-'Awja River.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Neveh Sharet

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on relatively flat terrain that sloped from north to south. Its lands were bounded by the northern bank of the al-'Awja River, some 2 km south of the village site. Al-Sawalima was founded by the nomadic 'Arab al-Sawalima, whose presence in Palestine predated Ottoman rule. They originally occupied the site only seasonally, during a phase in their annual migration cycle, but gradually began to settle permanently there in adobe houses. The residents, who were Muslim, opened an elementary school in the village in 1946, with an initial enrollment of thirty-one students. They cultivated citrus in the western and, especially, southern portions where a good number of wells provided irrigation water. In 1944/45 a total of 894 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas, and 4,566 dunums were allocated to cereals; 191 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. The northern segments of the village lands were mostly forest.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Al-Sawalima probably fell into Zionist hands some time before the end of the British Mandate on 15 May 1948. By this time, Zionist forces were in control of the whole coastal area between Haifa and Tel Aviv (see Abu Kishk, Jaffa sub-district).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no settlements on village lands.

Village Today

Cactuses grow on the village site. No identifiable traces of the former dwellings (tents or adobe houses) remain. Only the remnants of the one-room school are discernible (see Abu Kishk, Jaffa sub-district). A highway runs past the north side of the site (see photo).

Source

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

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Display Name	Clan/Hamolah	Country of Residence
هتــلر	السوالمه	نابلس
زياد درويش سوالمة	السوالمة	نابلس مخيم بلاطة
ابو حسن	-	-
ابو رشدي	-	-
abou frah	-	dubai
AbdelRaouf Sawalmeh	Sawalmeh	Dubai, UAE
جهاد المهر	المهر	-
محمد السوالمه	عبدالله	عمان, فاسطين
Jamil Sawalmeh	Al Sawalmeh	West Bank, Palestine
Abu_Alm3tsm	-	فلسطين, فلسطين
المغترب	السوالمه	-
محمود نشأت السوالمة	السوالمة	ابو ضبي, الامارات
Nedal	Sawalmeh	Al Faraa - Palestine, Palestine

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