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| al-Khisas District of Safad الخصاص - אל-ח'צאץ Ethnically cleansed days ago |
Statistic/Fact
Value
Israeli occupation date
May 25, 1948
Distance from district center
31 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation from the sea
100 (meters)
Map location
See location number #7 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
Based on a New York Times report on the 18th of December 1947, 10 people were killed including 5 children, and some victims were buried in the wreckage of their houses. Yigal Anon approved this terror act to be executed by the Haganah.
Exodus Cause
Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)
Village remains
after destruction by IsraelisThe village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically cleansing
by Israelisal-Khisas was ethnicaly cleansed as a result of psychological warfare conducted on the 25th of May 1948.
Land ownership
before occupation
Ethnic Group
Land Ownership (Dunums)
Arab
1,480
Jewish
2,738
Public
577
Total
4,795
Land usage in 1945
Land Usage Type
Arab (Dunum)
Jewish (Dunum)
Irrigated & Plantation
1,438
2,728
Built up
30
20
Cultivable
1,438
2,728
Non-Cultivable
589
0
Population
before occupation
Year
Population
1931
386
1945
530 (60 Jewish)
1948
545
Est. Refugees 1998
3,348
Number of houses
Year
Number of houses
1931
73
1948
103
Shrines/maqams
A shrine of local sage known by al-Shaykh 'Ali
Nearby wadies & rivers
The village was situated on the western banks Wadi al-Hasibani.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands
ha-Gosherim
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According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
Most of the village land is covered with woods and grass. There are scattered cactuses and some piles of stones, as well as the remains of an old building and a large arched stone barrage. The village lands are cultivated by the settlement of ha-Gosherim
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