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| al-Dawwara District of Safad الدوّارة - א-דוארה Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 25, 1948
Distance from district center
27 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
75 (meters)
Map location
See location number #17 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
Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely destroyed, and only house walls and rubble left behind.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Dawwara was ethnically cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on the 25th of May 1948
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
2,547
Jewish
2,573
Public
170
Total
5,470
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Area planted w/ citrus
68
0
Irrigated & Plantation
2,135
2,095
Planted W/ Cereal
281
603
Built up
52
55
Cultivable
2,484
2,698
Non-Cultivable
181
0
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
552
1945
1,100 (400 Jewish)
1948
812
Est. Refugees 1998
4,987
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
106
1948
155
Nearby wadies & rivers
The village bordered three rivers that flowed into lake al-Hula: the al-Hasbani, Banyas, and Dan rivers
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
Kibbutz 'Amir and Sde Nechemya
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
There are hardly any traces of the village left; only a few building stones at the edge of a fish pond remain on the site. The entire area has been converted into a fish hatchery
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