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| Kirad al-Ghannama District of Safad كراد الغنامة - כיראד אל-ע'נאמה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
In mid-March, the inhabitants of Kiradal-Ghannama were partially terrorized
into fleeing their homes after the massacre perpetrated in al-Husayniyya,
and in 1956 the DMZ's 2,200 inhabitants were all terrorized into fleeing to
Syria by the Israeli Army.
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
April 22, 1948
Distance from district center
11 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
150 (meters)
Map location
See location number #47 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
The Palmach's First Battalion
Israeli acts of terror
Kirad al-Ghannama was mostly ethnically cleansed and terrorized soon after the massacre committed at the nearby village of al-Husayniyya(Safad). See al-Husayniyya (Safad) for more details
Exodus Cause
Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely destroyed, and only the rubble of destroyed houses left behind.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelis
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
3,795
Jewish
175
Public
5
Total
3,975
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
77
0
Irrigated & Plantation
20
0
Planted W/ Cereal
3,451
175
Built up
64
0
Cultivable
3,548
175
Non-Cultivable
188
0
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
265
1945
350
1948
406
Est. Refugees 1998
2,493
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
54
1948
82
Nearby wadies & rivers
Wadi Mushayrifa ran between the two Kirad villages (al-Ghannama and al-Baqqara)
Water supplies
Wadi Waqqas contained plentiful supply of springs and wells the supplied the village with its water needs
Archeological sites
The village contained the following khirbas: Khirbat Nijmat al-Subh, Tall al-Qadah, and Tall al-Safa
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Ayyelet ha-Shahar and Gadot are nearby village lands
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
Only the rubble of houses remains. Vegetation, such as shrubs, some trees, and grass, grows throughout tile area. The surrounding land is used by Israelis botil for crop cultivation and as pasture
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