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Welcome To Sufla - سفلى (סופלא)

District of Jerusalem
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date October 19, 1948
Distance From District 18.5 (km) West of Jerusalem
Elevation 565 (meters)
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Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
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Pre-Nakba Aerial View
Map Location See location #11 on the map

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Military Operation Operation ha-Har
Attacking Units Sixth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade
Exodus Cause Military assault by Zionist troops
Village Temains Sufla was mostly destroyed and defaced with the exception of its cemetery.
Ethnically Cleansing Sufla inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 714
Jewish 0
Public 1,247
**Total 2,061
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)*
Olive Groves 24
Planted W/ Cereal 400
Arable 400
Non-Arable 1,658
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1922 46
1945 60
1948 70
Est. Refugees 1998 427
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 10
Near By Townswhat's new
Dayr Aban
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Dayr al-Hawa
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Dayr al-Shaykh
↗        
Jarash  ←
Sufla
→   Bayt 'Itab
            ↙
Bayt Nattif
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al-Tannur, Khirbat
↘           
'Allar
Town Lands' Demarcation Mapswhat's new
DemarcationLine
Shrines / Maqams A shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Mu'annis.
Archeological Sites Sufla contains archaeological evidence of a Crusade presence.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands		 No settlements on village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village stood on a plateau that stretched out in an east−west direction. A secondary road linked it to a highway that ran between Bayt Jibrin and the Jerusalem−Jaffa highway. A number of paths also connected it with the area's other villages. Sufla contained archaeological evidence of a Crusader presence. In the late nineteenth century, Sufla was situated on a narrow ridge and had a spring to the southeast. The village was classified as a hamlet in the Mandate-era Palestine Index Gazetteer, and was rectangular in shape. Most of its houses were built of stone, and some of them had a cave-like design. When new houses were constructed, the village expanded along a road that led to the nearby village of Jarash. The people of Sufla were Muslims and maintained a shrine for a local shaykh (a Shaykh Mu'annis) on the western side of the village. They obtained water for domestic use from two springs in the southeast and northeast. Their lands were watered by rainfall, and were planted in grain, fruit trees, olive trees, and grapes; olive trees covered 24 dunums. In 1944/45 a total of 400 dunums was allocated to cereals. Parts of the village lands were used as grazing areas.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

In the second half of October 1948, Israeli forces launched Operation ha-Har to capture a string of villages on the southern front. Sufla was one of the villages captured in the beginning of the operation by the Sixth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade, which seized the village during either the night of 18−19 October or the following night. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, 'Most of the population [of these villages fled southwards, towards Bethlehem and the Hebron hills.' Morris also cites evidence of expulsions at some villages in the area.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands.

Village Today

Stone rubble from houses is scattered throughout the site, which has become an open grazing area. Cave-like structures, formerly used as dwellings, also are present, and cactuses grow among the ruins and rubble. The village cemetery lies to the east of the site, and almond and olive groves cover the areas to the west and north.

Source

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