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Welcome To al-Salihiyya - الصالحية (א-צאלחיה)

District of Safad
Ethnically cleansed days ago

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Picture for al-Salihiyya Village - Palestine: : Example of a papyrus reed house in the Hula valley. c. 1910
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date May 25, 1948
Distance From District 25 (km) North East of Safad
Elevation 75 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #19 on the map

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Military Operation Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)
Attacking Units The Palmach's First Battalion
Exodus Cause Haganah 'Wispering' campaign (psychological warfare)
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed.
Ethnically Cleansing al-Salihiyya inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 4,528
Jewish 789
Public 290
**Total 5,607
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation 23 0
Planted W/ Cereal 4,230 764
Built up 94 25
Arable 4,253 764
Non-Arable 471 0
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Population
Year Population*
1931 1,281
1945 1,520
1948 1,763
Est. Refugees 1998 10,828
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 257
1948 353
Near By Townswhat's new
Qaytiyya

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al-Dawwara
       
al-Na'ima  
   al-Muftakhira
           
al-Zawiya

Hulah Lake
           
al-Muftakhira
Schools al-Salihiyya had an elementary school for boys.
Places of Warship One mosque
Nearby Wadies & Rivers The village was situated on the intersection of the Jordan River and Wadi Tur'an.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands
Kefar Blum is nearby village lands
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Village Before Nakba

The village lay in a flat area in the al-Hula Plain, next to the intersection of the Jordan River with Wadi Tur'an, which descended into Lake al-Hula some 4 km due south. It was linked to neighboring villages via a network of secondary roads, around which the village houses were clustered. Travelers who visited al-Salihiyya in the late nineteenth century described it as a village built of adobe bricks, situated on arable land on a plain close to a marsh. The village population was about ninety. [SWP (1881) I:203] The center of the village was defined by a small marketplace. Its population was predominantly Muslim. Al-Salihiyya had a mosque and a boys' elementary school. Agriculture was the residents' economic mainstay; they grew vegetables and fruits in the eastern and northern segments of the village land. In 1944/45 a total of 4,230 dunums was allocated to cereals and 23 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Al-Salihiyya fell on 25 May, as part of Operation yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district).

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no settlements on village lands. Kefar Blum (207286), founded in 1943, is just to the northwest of the site on lands that traditionally belonged to the village of Qaytiyya.

Village Today

The village has been obliterated; no trace of it remains. Residents of the settlement of Kefar Blum cultivate the surrounding land.

Source

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

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