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| al-Buwayziyya District of Safad البويزية والميس - אל-בויזיה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 11, 1948
Distance from district center
22 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
100 (meters)
Map location
See location number #20 on the map
Israeli military operation
Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Israeli attacking brigade
The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause
Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Buwayziyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
13,226
Jewish
503
Public
891
Total
14,620
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
56
0
Planted W/ Cereal
2,770
343
Built up
17
0
Cultivable
2,826
343
Non-Cultivable
11,274
160
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1922
276
1931
318
1945
510
1948
592
Est. Refugees 1998
3,633
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
75
1948
139
Schools
The village had elementary school for boys founded in 1937.
Water supplies
The village had many nearby springs which provided it with drinking water.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
No settlements on village lands
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
On the site where al-Buwayziyya once stood are the remains of destroyed houses, a few walls and terraces, and the (intact) concrete roof of one house
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